Article 682 of gnu.announce: Meta-HTML 5.02 Source Release Version 5.02 of Universal Access Inc.'s distribution is now available for download from: ftp://ftp.metahtml.com/pub/source/metahtml-5.02.tgz It should be available from prep.ai.mit.edu, and other GNU mirror sites within the next two weeks. ------------------------------------------------------------ What is it? is a programming language specifically designed for working within the World Wide Web environment. Although it is a genuine programming language, suitable for large-scale symbolic manipulation, it provides the most commonly wanted Web functionality as built-in primitives, so you don't have to write them. You can find out more about the theory of implementation in this white paper [http://www.metahtml.com/meta-html/manifesto.html]. Web pages are authored using HTML and statements freely intermixed. When a page is requested by a browser, the page is passed through the engine, which dynamically processes any statements to produce a final HTML page which is delivered to the browser. The source distribution provides several different interpreter options: * A CGI engine which can be run by any Unix Web server, * A FastCGI engine which can be run under FastCGI compliant servers, * A full-featured Web server (mhttpd) with the interpreter built in, * A standalone processor, much like Perl or Tcl, and * An interactive debugger, with a feel similar to GDB (mdb) ------------------------------------------------------------ Changes in 5.02 from 5.01 * FastCGI support -- tested with Apache and mod_fastcgi.c. * Numerous bug fixes and speed enhancements, way too many to detail here. * Better configuration mechanism allows compilation on many more machine/OS's than before. * Improved documentation. * More control over cookie manipulation, session IDs, and document expiration. * The ability to include binary representations of Meta-HTML source code directly in the compiled Engine, Server, Debugger, and Standalone Processor. See libmhtml/bootstrap.mhtml. * Revamped tagsets make it easier now than ever before to use statefull sessions, send E-mail, and more. ------------------------------------------------------------ E-Mail Addresses and URLs Bug reports for should be sent to bug-metahtml@metahtml.com. Bug reports for the documentation should be sent to bug-manual@metahtml.com. There is a user mailing list: metahtml-users@metahtml.com. You can subscribe on the Web [http://www.metahtml.com/e-mail-center/], or by sending mail to metahtml-users-request@metahtml.com. Pre-compiled distribution sets are available via the Web site at [http://www.metahtml.com/]. We currently have versions for BSDI 2.0/3.0, HPUX/10.10, IRIX/5.3, Linux-i386, Linux-axp, OSF-3.0-alpha, solaris-2.5-i386, solaris-2.5-sun4m, and sunos-4.1.4-sun4m ------------------------------------------------------------ Authors and Maintenance was designed and implemented by Brian J. Fox (bfox@ai.mit.edu). 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