FYI, I happened to be looking through the AOLserver cvs sources for an
unrelated reason, and noticed this in the ChangeLog:
2002-06-19 Jim Davidson
* include/ns.h:
* nsd/tclinit.c: Added new Ns_TclCreateInterp() which
creates and initializes interps for server and non-server
interps (e.g., the config interp). Interps are now
initialized with a call to Tcl_Init() which enables the
standard Tcl library procedures (e.g., unknown, http::,
etc.).
* nsd/tclthread.c:
* nsd/tclcmds.c: Thread and cache related commands no
longer require a server, exposing them in any interp created
with Ns_TclCreateInterp.
* nsd/server.c: NsGetServer handles NULL server.
In general, the changes above are steps towards making the
AOLserver API's more useful outside the context of a server.
The idea is to enable use of libnsd for other applications,
e.g., shells interps.
2002-05-15 Jim Davidson
* include/nsdb.h (new): Moved the NsDb interface from core
to new nsdb module. Simply loading nsdb.so should work as
before. Goal is to enable full replacement of NsDb in the
future.
Now, I've no idea how far Jim and Kriston plan to take that, or how
soon, but clearly the AOL team has at least some interest and has made
at least some progress in refactoring the AOLserver code into
libraries that can be used anywhere. And once that's done,
it should be very cool indeed...
