Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:14:45 +1100 From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: busybox and small scripting languages on FreeBSD ? (was Re: 80 Mb / enough for 7.x? OK to delete /stand/ and /modules/ ?) Message-ID: <48950685.4020303@bullseye.andymac.org> In-Reply-To: <20080802225643.GA84798@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> References: <372128.56919.qm@web51502.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <20080802.002039.58462077.imp@bsdimp.com> <4894A9D8.2090606@freebsd.org> <20080802225643.GA84798@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Also, what would you suggest as a small scripting language to be used
> in this kind of platform for implementing CGI scripts (and preferably
> able to use sockets/select) ?
>
> The various perl/python/php and friend are in the 10MB range once you
> pick up a little bit of libraries (sockets etc) and the tangle of
> modules they require; awk (which is present in busybox) is ok-ish for
> some things, but doing I/O and calling external programs with it is
> very unfriendly;
I've not tried to do this myself (had no need), but Python does support
having its standard library code in a ZIP archive. The .py (source)
files can be omitted, so the ZIP archive only needs to contain the byte
compiled files (.pyc, and .pyo if you ever use Python's -O option).
With a stripped interpreter, I'd estimate you might get an install
down to ~6MB, with non-essentials (for an embedded production
environment) removed. But you do have to work at it... :-(
I hear Lua is compact and capable, including sockets support, but have
never looked at it.
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