Re: [Web-SIG] more comments on Paste Deploy

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: It all gives indication. Yes, if only one person says this sucks, then their opinion may not be worth changing the implementation for. However, if 50% of users said this sucks, even if they couldn't explain why, that'd be something worth worrying about. Sure, but how

Re: [Web-SIG] [Proposal] website and first-level conf

2007-03-13 Thread Chris Withers
Jim Fulton wrote: I do a lot of unix deployment, and the thought of a buildout that sprays files all over the system, even if they are in standard unix-y location scares me a lot... That's because you are a developer. OK, I see what you mean now, although I think it's clear that

Re: [Web-SIG] Proposal: Avoiding Serialization When Stacking Middleware

2007-03-13 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: basically, where each object type results in a new key in the environment and a new ad hoc specification to be made (e.g., wsgi.file_wrapper takes a block size, which is specific only to that case). Right. I'm specifically saying that a collection of individual

Re: [Web-SIG] Proposal: Avoiding Serialization When Stacking Middleware

2007-03-13 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 02:47 PM 3/13/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: The open issues section has three issue. One is a matter of defining some naming convention, and as long as people *try* to match up their conventions it will work. The second has a proposed solution. The last is merely aesthetic. These are

Re: [Web-SIG] Proposal: Avoiding Serialization When Stacking Middleware

2007-03-13 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: I didn't understand what you were proposing, I think. I still don't really know what get_file_storage means. It would return a cgi.file_storage encoding the request body. I still don't understand. Are you talking about cgi.FieldStorage? Are you talking about an

Re: [Web-SIG] Proposal: Avoiding Serialization When Stacking Middleware

2007-03-13 Thread Ian Bicking
Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 03:14 PM 3/13/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: I didn't understand what you were proposing, I think. I still don't really know what get_file_storage means. It would return a cgi.file_storage encoding the request body. I still don't understand.

Re: [Web-SIG] Proposal: Avoiding Serialization When Stacking Middleware

2007-03-13 Thread Phillip J. Eby
At 04:15 PM 3/13/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: At 03:14 PM 3/13/2007 -0500, Ian Bicking wrote: Phillip J. Eby wrote: I didn't understand what you were proposing, I think. I still don't really know what get_file_storage means. It would return a cgi.file_storage encoding the