[Web-SIG] more comments on Paste Deploy

[Chad Whitacre]

Jim,

Thanks for the reply.


 > 2. Do we want to reuse its configuration syntax.

-1


 > The configuration format used by Paste Deploy is a simple
 > standard format used by many many systems inside and outside
 > the Python community.

I'm not objecting to the general ini-style format (do I read you 
right?), but rather to the overloaded section names, the URI/name 
syntax, the 'set' prefix, composite applications, etc. Paste 
Deploy layers a whole mini-language on top of the ini format.


 > Obviously, we can agree to disagree on this.

Sure, as long as Paste Deploy's config syntax is optional for 
whatever-we're-building. :^)



 > 1. Can we agree on a standard set of entry points so that WSGI
 > applications can be combined automatically?  I think Paste
 > Deploy provides at least good start on this.
 >
 > You haven't commented on the entry points defined by Paste
 > Deploy.  Do you have an opinion on adopting the entry-point API
 > defined by Paste Deploy?

Ok, I need help: defining an entry point allows a plugin to 
advertise that it can satisfy that entry point, but you still 
need a configuration layer to actually wire it up, no? In which case:

   1) What does "automatically" mean?
   2) Aren't we back to discussing config syntax?






chad