Web Application Server

[Alex Martelli]

"Daniel Green" <daniel.green at ncf.ca> wrote in message
news:000701c0014d$e48f73d0$0200000a at threepwood...
> I've just placed a very beta release of Fenster, a web application server
> written entirely in Python, similar to ASP and PHP (but, obviously, using
> Python as their scripting language) on SourceForge. I wouldn't call it
> release qualiy, but it's certainly pretty cool given that it's only about
> 500 lines of code. :)

*blink* I make it 130, which is even cooler!-)  Or are you counting
some of the pre-existing modules you import?


> What I really need right now is as much feedback as possible.
>
> So if you're at all interested, I urge you to head over to
> http://fenster.sourceforge.net and have a look. It'd be especially cool if
> we could get some real discussions going on the mailing list.

Why don't you join this one -- comp.lang.python newsgroup/also
available as a mailing list.  I think you'll get more feedback
this way.  E.g., I'm not going to use the thing right now (no
server available with FastCGI -- Xitami's LRWP is similar but
would need a little wee bit of porting -- plus I'm happy with my
own YAPTU, although Fenster [a] has a cooler name and [b] is MUCH
closer to the ASP idea, thus will be easier to migrate to for
ASP authors), but I'd be quite happy discussing it here, and I
think there is enough general interest in Python use on web
servers to warrant it.


> As a "Python rocks!" testimonial, the actual coding time between
> conceptualization and this beta was probably about a total of 6 hours of
> coding -- and that included many re-writes and tweaks.

Awesome indeed.


Alex