mxCGIPython project - Update

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Hi everybody,

I just wanted to inform you of the current state of the single-file
easy-to-install Python interpreter. This is the current set of
binaries available:

cgipython-1.5.2-AIX-2-000771064C00-.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-FreeBSD-2.2.8-RELEASE-i386-i386.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-FreeBSD-3.0-RELEASE-i386-i386.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-FreeBSD-3.1-19990426-STABLE-i386-i386.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-HP-UX-A.09.03-9000_715-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-HP-UX-B.10.20-9000_782-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-IRIX-5.3-IP19-mips.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.34-i586-RedHat-5.1.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.35-i586-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.35-i686-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.36-i586-Debian-2.1.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.0.36-i586-unknown.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-Linux-2.2.7-i586-SuSE60.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-NetBSD-1.3.2-alpha.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-NetBSD-1.3.3-i386.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-SunOS-5.5.1-sun4u-sparc-alternate.gz
cgipython-1.5.2-SunOS-5.5.1-sun4u-sparc.gz

If you have access to other platforms not included in the
list, feel free to contribute a binary. Compiling the binary
is really easy and only takes about two minutes of your time
(plus some five minutes CPU time). All the details and links
to the binaries are available on the project web-page:

  http://starship.skyport.net/~lemburg/mxCGIPython.html

BTW, the general technique used by the cgipython setup
should also be applicable on Windows platforms... maybe someone
could look into this and contribute a zipped exe file
for Win95/98/NT.

Note that even though these binaries are intended to ease
CGI program writing, they are also usable as normal
Python interpreters with the restriction that command
line arguments cannot be passed to the interpreter, e.g.
cgipython -u myscript.py does not work. This was done for
CGI security reasons to prevent attacks of the form
     python -c "import os; os.system('rm -rf /')"
being sent to the interpreter via CGI.

Cheers,
-- 
Marc-Andre Lemburg
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