Midgard 2: Finally legacy-free

24 April 2008
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While watching Everaldo work on the upcoming Midgard C# bindings, I decided to try running Midgard 2 with lighttpd. After quite a lot of struggling to get latest SVN checkout to compile on my mac, and some playing with lighty rewrite rules, I was greeted with a working MidCOM 3 page:

MidCOM 3 running on Midgard 2 and lighttpd

So, after such a long time, Midgard 2 is finally a running system without any legacy dependencies, independent of HTTP server module or a specific database engine. Things will be even more interesting as we will really start using Python, PHP and mono bindings together using D-Bus.

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