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Re: [ECS] ECS/Linux ? Ingo Pakleppa Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:06:55 -0700

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Mark,

I was gone for a few days, so I only just got the mails.

A couple notes:

- don't port to Linux. Port to Java. That gives you the flexibility to
quickly come out with a Mac version or a PC version or (you'll probably
need a little C code for controlling the hardware, so the Java code won't
run on other platforms out of the box). The best Java development
environment I saw so far is VisualAge by IBM.

- if you decided against Java and port to Linux, start with your DOS
version, not your Windows version. The Windows API was deliberately kept
VERY incompatible with Unix, while the DOS API is still somewhat similar.

- you also asked about ISAPI scripts: same thing, don't use ISAPI but
instead CGI. ISAPI is a lot faster - but since hopefully you won't see
hundreds and hundreds of people retrieving your phone messages at the same
time, that is hardly an issue. The big advantage of CGI is that it is not
tied to just one Web server, but can run on any - for instance, Apache is
still the most popular one, but it won't run ISAPI (Apache is available for
NT but most popular on Unix).

Incidentally, the ISAPI filters are the wrong ones to start with - use the
other one (I don't recall the name; ISAPI DLLs?)

Ingo

At 06:01 AM 6/3/99 -0700, Mark Gilmore wrote:
>Thanks Bill,
>Bruce Winter is an old ECS customer, and it appears
>that he wrote MisterHouse. I notified him of my
>tentative plans. Hopefully, he can assist me in
>in this venture.
>
>Bill Bass wrote:
>> 
>> I would LOVE to see a Linux port of ECS.  If you would like to get
>> some ideas on what is currently going on with HA in the Linux
>> community, I might suggest you take a look at MisterHouse.
>> ( http://members.home.net/winters/house/ )
>> 
>> I would also try subscribing to it's mailing list for a while.
>> ( http://www.onelist.com/ , then do a search for "misterhouse")
>> 
>> The mail volume is small, typically around 5 posts/day.  There is
>> also an archive available.
>> ( http://www.onelist.com/archives.cgi/misterhouse )
>> This list is less than a year old, so reading all of the archive is
>> a fairly easy task.
>> 
>> This will give you a fairly good idea of the ongoing development
>> of what is the best Linux based HA software I have been able to
>> find in nearly 6 months of searching.  I have been seriously hoping
>> to find something more like ECS, but nothing seems to exist yet
>> (hint! hint!).
>> 
>> BTW.  ECS has been mentioned once or twice on this list as the
>> standard they are shooting for...several people on this list are or
>> have been ECS users.
>> 
>> Bill Bass
>> Advanced Technology Systems
>> Senior Consultant, IBM Mainframes
>> Greenville, South Carolina, USA
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net>
>> To: ecs-list@netbloc.com <ecs-list@netbloc.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 10:28 PM
>> Subject: [ECS] ECS/Linux ?
>> 
>> >Anyone have any suggestions/advice/links
>> >regarding a possible port of ECS/Win to Linux ?
>> >--
>> >Mark Gilmore
>> >Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
>> >omnip@usit.net
>> >http://www.usit.com/omnip
>> >
>
>-- 
>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence (ECS Home Automation Software)
>omnip@usit.net
>http://www.usit.com/omnip

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