[Web-SIG] CGI in PEP 444

[P.J. Eby]

At 12:43 PM 1/4/2011 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>Alice Bevan­McGregor <alice at ...> writes: > > [1] 
>http:://bit.ly/e7rtI6 So, while we are at it, could we get rid of 
>the "CGI server example" in this new SWGI spec? This is 2011, and we 
>should promote modern idioms, not encourage people to do 1995 Web 
>programming. 10 years ago, CGI was already frown upon. (and even the 
>idea that WSGI should provide some kind of CGI compatibility sounds 
>a bit ridiculous to me) Regards Antoine.

I still use CGI for the odd one-off, testing, prototyping, etc., and 
it's by far the easiest thing to deploy on a lot of web hosts.  Hell, 
even Google App Engine *emulates* CGI in its default deployment 
configuration, IIRC.  So it's not exactly obsolete.

Also, the main purpose of the example is to show what a web server 
developer needs to do to hook up their own piping to provide WSGI 
services...  and most web server developers have something like CGI 
code already lying around, or at least know what CGI looks like.




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