[Web-SIG] Web Container Interface

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Wed Jan 28 10:08:45 EST 2004


At 11:39 PM 1/27/04 -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
>At 09:35 PM 1/27/04 -0500, Greg Ward wrote:
>>My gut feeling is that a barebones web container -- say, one that
>>enables Quixote applications to run as FastCGI scripts, say -- should
>>fit into 10 lines of Python code.  A super-duper, whiz-bang,
>>all-singing, all-dancing container -- enable applications written under
>>N different frameworks to execute using M different models -- should fit
>>in roughly 1000 lines of Python.
>
>All the containers I've written so far weigh in at a lot less than 100 
>lines; even the BaseHTTPServer one was only maybe 200.  I've only tested 
>for N=3 and and M=3 so far,

Oops, that was supposed to be "a lot less than 1000 lines".




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