Re: WebWare support

Tavis Rudd <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:19:08 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.cheetah
Message-ID <alpine.LNX.2.00.1004271117000.26320@o3>

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:

> Moin Blaise!
>
> Blaise Vogel schrieb am Dienstag, den 27. April 2010:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working with Cheetah + WebWare for a long time. But, in the last version, the WebWare support was removed:-((
>> http://github.com/cheetahtemplate/cheetah/commit/0eead16006099c658988ebc4e1687ccabcbd3e92
>>
>> What's the solution ?
>
> My preferred solution would be not to use WebWare ;)
>
> I removed the code because it causes pretty serious performance regressions on
> Mac OS X (as alluded to in the commit comment). I would recommend sticking to
> an earlier version of Cheetah, or finding a better means of supporting WebWare
> that doesn't result in the WebKit module being imported on Mac OS X.

I'd recommend the latter or a monkey patch to reinsert WebKit.Servlet into 
the Template inheritance chain if that doesn't work for you.

> I cannot support WebWare however, since I do not use it nor test with it, so it
> may be a better solution to fork the Git repository on GitHub and revert that
> commit and work with that slight deviation from Cheetah's mainline tree.

Yeah, the baked in support for WebWare's got to go.

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