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Porting lighttpd to the iPhone

4 Responses to “Porting lighttpd to the iPhone”

1. Alice McGregor , on December 9th, 2007 at 8:18 am Said:

   Thanks! ;^) I highly approve of your work, too, though PHP is no longer my language of choice. A LiMP stack with Python instead of PHP would be great!

   — Alice.

2. Tom , on December 9th, 2007 at 4:32 pm Said:

   So you dropped PHP for Python….
   That’s interesting ….
   I have been looking at Python - but the Windows implementation of it always seems to be kind of big in terms of MBs. And then kinda makes L2G a little harder to keep portable.
   Hey thanks for stopping by the site ….
   BTW if you stop by again — A quick question…
   Will your port work on the iTouch too?

   –Tom

3. Alice McGregor , on January 23rd, 2008 at 3:40 pm Said:

   Lighttpd will run on any Mobile OSX - that’s the iPhone from the first version up and the iPod Touch from the first version up. Getting it on was difficult in the early days, but Installer.app makes it much, much easier.

4. Alice McGregor , on June 17th, 2008 at 1:59 am Said:

   Also note that one of the size issues with Python is that the source code for each module is included. If you want, you can have Python byte-compile all of the modules, then you can just delete the original .py files to save space. (.pyc, compiled code, and .pyo, optimized compiled code you should keep).

   Note that this makes development introspection a little more difficult for many debuggers, documentation builders like epydoc, and interactive shells like ipython.

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