RE: RE: CGIDEV2

["Bob Cozzi" <cozzi@xxxxxxxxx>]

CGIDEV2 is Giovanni's wrapper for Mel's CGISRVPGM2 *SRVPGM. 
Lot's of old VM-style /COPYs all over the place to make things work, lots of
copying objects into libraries to make it work--not very RPG or AS/400-like.
But the original or foundation service program isn't like that and doesn't
really require the CGIDEV2 wrappers. I find the wrappers often get in the
way of trying to write code from scratch. But the templates aren't bad.
I loved the tutorials on Easy400 site, which where infinitely better than
some of the books there were out there at the time. But the extra code in
CGIDEV2 (above and beyond CGISRVPGM2) was good to initially setup/install
CGISRVPGM2 on your system. After that, those wrappers sort of get in your
way. With all those /COPYs in various locations it can get cluttered pretty
fast. It wasn't the quantity of /COPY's it was the placement of them. 

It is those wrappers, not the CGISRVPGM2 itself, that are open source. IBM
owns CGISRVPGM2's code. So we're talking about two different things here.
CGIDEV2 is nothing without CGISRVPGM2. The easy400 site, on the other hand,
is probably the best place to learn about CGI and HTML with respect to RPG
programming.

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
If everything is under control, you are going too slow.
- Mario Andretti


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 12:43 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: [WEB400] RE: CGIDEV2

>Giovanni recently clarified on yahoo groups that the open 
>source license he wrote and published at
>http://www-922.ibm.com/easy400p/easy400pos.html
>applied to other software provided on the site, but 
>not to CGIDEV2, which I'm sure was was a surprise to a lot of people. 

OK, again, IANAL, but it's really clearly stated on an _IBM_ site that:

"In the following text, 'Easy400 software' means any piece of software
distributed from this Easy400 site."

And I just downloaded CGIDEV2 from the Easy400 site. So AFAIC, CGIDEV2
is open source. I really don't think they could argue otherwise. 

-Walden

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