[Web-SIG] WSGI -- usable for other protocols?

Jean-Paul Calderone exarkun at divmod.com
Wed Oct 18 02:50:13 CEST 2006


On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:48:12 PDT, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
>I've been working on Python IMAP server that uses PyLucene for
>indexing.  It's mainly IMAP, but also speaks a bit of HTTP for an
>administrative interface.  Does it make any sense to wrap it with
>WSGI?  That is, does WSGI make sense for other protocols than HTTP
>(specifically IMAP)?
>
>And, what WSGI-supporting environments will also support PyLucene (the
>limiting factor is that the GCJ runtime has to be linked in, and all
>threads must be GCJ threads).

Not really a response to your question, but might I suggest you contribute
to a project which sounds roughly equivalent to the one you're describing?

http://divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodQuotient

Jean-Paul



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