Re: twisted

On 03/29/05 21:54, Blake Winton wrote:
> Steven Armstrong wrote:
>> On 03/29/05 19:10, Blake Winton wrote:
>>>Okay, so, are we agreed that we can remove the pyblosxom.cgi, as it 
>>>should be logically equivalent to pyblosxom_wsgi.cgi?  (And browsing 
>>>through the source, they look _extremely_ similar, which worries me as a 
>>>coder.  Twice the chance to make mistakes.)
>> The problem here is that pyblosxom_wsgi.cgi depends on the wsgiref
>> library. I don't think users who only care about CGI should be forced to
>> install that.
> 
> Well, how about changing the else case to:
>      try:
>          from wsgiref.handlers import CGIHandler
>          from wsgi_app import application
>          CGIHandler().run(application)
>      except ImportError:
>          p.run()
>          response = p.getResponse()
>          response.sendHeaders(sys.stdout)
>          response.sendBody(sys.stdout)
> 
> (obviously we'll need to add more in there, but the basic idea should be 
> solid, right?)
> 

Good idea. I've hacked my local copy of pyblosxom.cgi to work just like
that. I'll commit it after a few more tests.

> And just between us, I think I would be okay with forcing people to 
> install WSGI, or installing it for them, but that might just be because 
> I'm enamored of it now, and think that it's critical to the future of 
> Python on the web.
> 

Why? If the user doesn't need/want the WSGI stuff he shouldn't be forced
to use it. After all it's another layer of code that can contain errors
and consumes CPU, memory and time.

I agree that WSGI is important for Python web programming.
Altough for me it doesn't really go far enough. I'ld prefer something
like the Java Servlet spec, that is, a less bloated and pythonized
variant. There's still so meny things missing in WSGI, like session
handling and all.

This is is one section where Pythons batteries are missing.


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