[Web-SIG] [ANN] Aspen 0.3 -- a WSGI-rific web server
Chad Whitacre
chad at zetaweb.com
Fri Nov 17 22:57:53 CET 2006
Greetings, program!
I've just released what amounts to a dev snapshot of a project I'm
calling Aspen. It's an attempt at a production-quality WSGI-centric web
server, something to hang your WSGI on. Some of my goals with this are:
- Don't write a framework.
Aspen is a way to organize your existing WSGI apps, middleware, and
frameworks into a website.
- Support publication/hybrid websites as well as application websites.
The frameworks that are out there generally treat application models
as primary. Aspen gets back to the roots of the Web with a primarily
hierarchical organization, into which applications (written with
whatever WSGI-supporting framework) can be joined. Go filesystem!
- Deeply drink the WSGI kool-aid.
All direct extensions to Aspen are WSGI callables. (Actually,
they're a slight super-set of WSGI [see also: httpy], but that's a
bug I want to fix. I decided to release early though.)
- Keep it Stupid, Stupid
I like to use the same server for development and deployment. Aspen
only exposes a few knobs on the command line, with further config
and extension via simple plain-text config files in a UNIX-style
userland hidden within your site hierarchy.
The core extensibility code is pretty well tested. The plugin examples
and the configuration/UI code are a bit rougher. Basically, anything
documented is ready for scrutiny.
I've got a couple sites using proto-versions of Aspen. This is a
complete rewrite based around WSGI, but the basic publication-centric
pattern hasn't changed. Paste is the closest thing I've found for wiring
up WSGI. I think Aspen might be a stripped-down, publication-centric,
production-intended Paste Script.
Anyway, I would love any feedback you've got. To get started, just:
$ easy_install aspen
And then check out the tutorial:
http://www.zetadev.com/software/aspen/0.3/doc/html/tutorial.html
Thanks!
chad
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