RE: standalone wiki

I recently set up a standalone wiki using moin.py on a Win2K box, and ran
into the following problem. When I had things working the way I wanted them
I replaced the call to 'python moin.py' with 'pythonw moin.py' so I wouldn't
have the shell window hanging around. However, the wiki would then crash
within a few hours on the call to sys.stdout.write with an exception saying
that it was an invalid file descriptor. So the sys module must have been
buffering the output (which consisted mostly of the little spinning bar
characters '\|/-') and when it got around to writing to stdout, which
doesn't exist for pythonw, it crashed.

I have two comments on this:

1. This should be noted somewhere in the docs. In retrospect this is
obvious, but at the time I thought that pythonw was a drop-in equivalent to
python. (I'm still a bit surprised that pythonw doesn't just discard
anything written to stdout.)

2. What's the recommended approach to running a standalone wiki on Windows?
My first instinct is to change moin.py to detect whether stdout is valid and
if not, to point stdout/stderr at a log file and also to remove the spinning
bar in httpdmain.py. Better ideas?

Mike.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Waldmann
Sent: March 20, 2004 5:07 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Moin-devel] standalone wiki


>I have described how to set up the standalone wiki. Should I put this into
the 
>masterwiki ?
>
Yes, integrate it into the install docs there.



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