René,
> Why did you make it? Just for fun? Or is there some other reason you
> chose to make it?
Thanks for biting. :-)
Not just for fun, no. I maintain about 30 websites, implemented
in a mix of server technologies:
- Apache (static HTML, CGI, PHP)
- Zope 2 (with and without Plone)
- httpyd (Aspen fore-runner)
My goal with Aspen is to shove all of this heterogeneity into the
websites themselves, and use a single server for all of them. I
named it Aspen because a grove of aspen trees all share a common
root structure (ranking certain aspen groves among the world's
largest living things!).
As I mentioned earlier, I think Aspen shares this goal with Paste
Script/Deploy, but Aspen is more filesystem-centric, it's
intended for production use, and (IMO) it's simpler.
Here are some design considerations:
- I want to use a single web server for many heterogeneous
websites, from development through to production.
- A website should "look like a website" on the filesystem. Any
project-y directory structure should be swept under the rug.
- At the same time, websites should be self-contained, with all
packages and configuration together in one place.
- I should be able to type "aspen" in any directory and have
something smart happen.
- Configuration syntaxes should be simple and stupid. Python
especially is waaay overkill as a configuration language.
If Aspen were written in C you could compare it to Mongrel.
I'd be curious to know what you use to build and deploy your WSGI
websites. Do you use Paste Script/Deploy, or something else?
Thanks again for your questions.
chad
P.S. Paste includes a lot. I actually spent quite a while today
becoming more familiar with all of Paste's middleware, and I'm
pretty excited about that part of it. PonyMiddleware! :)
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