Graham Dumpleton wrote: > > Having said all that, perhaps those who are complaining about lack of > support for specific features in mod_python can now clarify what > actually you are talking about. At the moment the brief comments being > made seem to possibly cover some things that mod_python can already do > but may not be obvious.
I had a more complete response to this before Google Groups and my browser went into "stupid mode" together, but I'd like to say that I don't have any complaints about mod_python, but I know that there were people who claimed [1] that PHP had its "safe mode" [2] which gave isolation to applications belonging to different users in the same Apache instance, asserting that mod_python not having that particular feature prevented wider adoption of Python in the hosting business. It's good to see a clarification of mod_python and its position in relation to such issues, though. I don't really share the concerns mentioned, and wouldn't want to be using or providing services of the kind previously discussed, anyway. Instead, I'd want to deploy applications using other techniques such as virtualisation, rather than throwing customers into the same Web server and, apparently in the case of PHP, relying on hearsay about whether they can interfere with each other. I note that the creator of mod_python seems to have a similar perspective on virtualisation, given the nature of his hosting company's services. Paul [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/ 469dd47f5c1ad521 [2] http://no.php.net/features.safe-mode -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
