Need advice on choosing the technology for intranet based application

[Steve Holden]

"Jeff Davis" <jdavis at empires.org> wrote ...
> The advice I was about to give you followed what Steve had to say, so I
> have included my comments here.
>
> > Whenever I read "CGI" I also read "a pain to maintain" some words
> > later... ? It's a project with a (modest) possibility to turn into a
> > product, so both portability and maintanability are issues.
>
> Well, CGI isn't considered the best development environment. It isn't
> horrible though (unless performance is an issue...).The main advantage to
> CGI is that it's portable, and you don't want to go rewrite your app. One
> thing you might do is write your program in python, and use libraries to
> handle everything. That way if you do need to put it on something
> unexpected, you can just rewrite a few lines.
>
> > On the other hand, Mark also meant CGI/Apache, writting Python/Apache,
> > right?
>
> Not necessarily. If you think you'll at least be able to install some
> software on the target webserver, you could use mod_python. Use the
> publisher handler, and read the simple docs on the publisher handler (a
> part of mod_python) and the cgi module (thats a python module with
> routines that are useful for any web programming, not just CGI).
>
> Or, you might want to stick with python CGIs. CGIs seem safer, because I
> don't see as many possible problems or stumbling blocks.If it get's turned
> into some other software later, it will be easy to change it from CGI to
> something else if you code defensively.

You might also want to look at WebWare, which goes pretty well in the Apache
environment and offers framework support for Python web applications.

regards
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