At 11:51 PM 12/18/2007 +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote: >Phillip J. Eby ha scritto: >>At 10:10 PM 12/18/2007 +0100, Manlio Perillo wrote: >>>Ok. >>>Here I would just say that when someone install something on its >>>system, it should at least know what he is doing. >>And I repeat: you're welcome to your opinions about what's good or >>bad, but that has nothing to do with WSGI's design rationale, which >>is based on *different* goals. > >The problem is that I don't think that having many server >configuration parameters with "safe" defaults value is against your >design goals.
Sometimes parameters are a necessary evil; that doesn't make them any less evil, just more necessary. :) However, if they aren't necessary, then they're just plain evil. Range support would be a good example of something where an option isn't necessary, since properly-written Range support in the server should be able to tell when the application has already handled the necessary range-ing of the output. Thus, having an option to turn it on or off is clearly a bad idea, as compared to making sure that the Range support is correct in the first place. _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
