Re: Mason + FastCGI

Hi,

On 2009/10/01, at 13:09, Hans Dieter Pearcey wrote:
> Excerpts from Pedro Melo's message of Thu Oct 01 02:55:28 -0400 2009:
>>> OK; then why not use only what you need?  It'd be trivial to write
>>> an app whose
>>> Controller::Root had a single action (at /, with any number of args)
>>> that
>>> handed off to a Mason view to do the real work.  You get fastcgi and
>>> the
>>> standalone server for free AND the Mason component reloading that
>>> you enjoy so
>>> much.
>>
>> That would work, but isn't that a bit extreme? Use the entire Cat
>> stack just to get FastCGI?
>
> * FastCGI
> * standalone dev server
> * futureproofing

Of these, FastCGI is true, standalone dev server is not important as I  
previously explained (I don't even use for Cat apps...) and future- 
proofing is a non-issue.


> I don't understand saying "the entire Cat stack".  It's not like I'm  
> pulling in
> a session module and an ORM and a form builder and a twitter client  
> -- it's
> just a HTTP abstraction and a URI dispatcher[1].  If we were talking  
> about
> Jifty I might get where you're coming from.

but I just need the HTTP abstraction.

PSGI is a much better fit, and probably my path is to help myiagawa to  
finish the HandlerPSGI + the Impl::FastCGI.

In the mean time, I'll try my HandlerFastCGI code to keep developing.

Best regards,

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