At 02:40 PM 8/26/01 -0700, Tavis Rudd wrote:
>I've been quietly working away an experimental redesign and
>repackaging of Webware. It is not a 'rewrite' of Webware.
>Chuck, Geoff, Jay, and the other Webware developers have
>done some excellent work with the existing Webware. Most of
>the code in this redesign is theirs.
>
>You can download it from
>http://calrudd.com/Webware-experimental_redesign.tar.gz
>It's well documented and there is much more information in
>the README file I've attached.
I took a quick glance at this -- basically I just read the README file and
the new config file. That's all I'll have time to do for a while.
A few comments:
- Many of the differences in your design sound very similar to the
multi-app stuff that Jay has been working on.
- Distutils support is a good thing.
- I really like config files to be in Python syntax. Any reason you went
with a different format as the default? (I did notice that you also allow
Python syntax as an option. I'd vote for that as the default.)
- You mention that existing servlets will work even though the package
structure has changed. If this does get incorporated into Webware, it
ought to display a DeprecationWarning that explains how to switch to the
new package structure. Maybe it already does this.
- Please let us know if and when you've fleshed out the remaining 10%,
especially the forwardRequest() stuff. I'd be interested in trying this
out using my existing Webware site, but I make heavy use of forwarding.
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- Geoff Talvola
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