Re: [cgiapp] RFC: Thumbnail Image Server

[Ron Savage <suppressed>]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 08:31:19 -0500, Jesse Erlbaum wrote:

Hi Jesse

> This application will dynamically create and cache image thumbnails
> at request time, among other things.  The ultimate goal is a Perl-
> based implementation approaching Amazon's image server:

Good idea.

> My thoughts about the name (in loose order of preference):
> WWW::ImageServer

My preference too, but then I did not think too hard...

> Apache::ImageServer

Apache? Will it be crippleware, ie refuse to run on other web servers (not that
there are that many choices)?

> CGI::Application::ImageServer

Understandable choice, but my policy these days is to use names which describe
what a module does, rather than describe what components were used to provide
the module's services.

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Cheers
Ron Savage, suppressed on 30/11/2006
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