[Web-SIG] WSGI adoption

[Dave Warnock]

Phillip,

> Jim Fulton (aka the Zope Pope) is most interested in WSGI for the 
> ability to run Zope under Twisted and mod_python.  In the long run, 
> they'd like to also replace their Medusa-based email/FTP/etc. servers 
> with Twisted ones.

That is great for all these projects. Zope gets a variety of options for 
deployment. All the others get some heavy load testing done.

This is a win win situation.

>> Zope 3 could be a WSGI application;
> 
> 
> There's a prototype application wrapper in the 'zope.app.wsgi' package 
> on the Zope X3 subversion trunk.  It's not ready for prime time just 
> yet, though.  The thing that made me realize how badly we need a 
> deployment configuration format pretty badly, was when I was trying to 
> help the volunteer who wrote 'zope.app.wsgi', and it became obvious that 
> people were going to have to write Python scripts to glue the thing into 
> a web server.  Ultimately, that Just Won't Do, certainly not for Zope's 
> audience.

Agreed. We need configuration and I think we need it in v1.0 of the Pep.

Thanks

Dave
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