[Xitami-Dev] Xitami/5 - new project announcement

[Kris Beazley]

Hi Peter, 

Happy new year as well to you.  I too am glad the Xitami well continue.  I still use older versions (v2.5b4) and believe it or not I managed to hack the code and compile for 64 bit architecture.  I primarily use it for my home automation CGI's which is why I'm requested the importance of CGI use in future versions of the Xitami.  I myself only dabble in BaSH so that if any would be the only help I could contribute.

Much success in your endeavors,
-- Kris 

On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 11:57:22 -0500, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Happy new year for 2009.
>
> It's been a while since we stopped working on Xitami/2.5.
>
> Well, we've started on a new version of Xitami, which will be called
> Xitami/5.  (Versions 3 and 4 were started, and dropped, internally.)
>
> It'll be a while before this becomes a polished stand-alone product,
> and that will only happen if people ask for it and help make it so.
> Our main reason for restarting this concept is that we need a small,
> tough server as the front-end for new web services we're making.
>
> Xitami/5 will remind you a lot of Xitami: compact, efficient, and easy
> to configure.  It won't have CGI or LRWP, unless someone helps make
> this.  It's meant above all to be scalable on multicore boxes, secure
> (it will have SSL support), and unhackable. It will run on most OSes
> but we're not going to spend time making nice Win32 front-ends.  It
> will run without ever crashing.
>
> I've put a post on www.zyre.com (Zyre is the new web messaging service
> we're making) that explains a little more.
>
> Technical details: Xitami/5 uses the Base2 server framework we built
> for OpenAMQ (www.openamq.org).  That gives us multithreading and a
> nice development environment.
>
> As we get code that works, and if there is interest, we'll put up a
> new website.  In the meantime, we've put up a sample of the new
> documentation here: http://xitami.wikidot.com/doc:xitami-5.
>
> --
> Pieter Hintjens
> iMatix Corporation
>