On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 5:27 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> What is it now, just a straight WSGI app? > > No, FCGI.
Statements like this lead me to believe that ignoring Joel Spolsky would be the right thing to do. Right now the PyPI codebase seems to have a bus number[1] of one: Martin, who is apparently the only person who really understands the code well enough to do significant work on it. This is something which could be remedied by having more people learn the code and get familiar enough with it to make contributions, but that's complicated by the fact that PyPI still does so much basically from scratch -- it doesn't even use the standard gateway interface Python web developers are expected to be familiar with, much less any well-known libraries. As such, just having people learn the code doesn't seem like a great option; for one thing, existing knowledge of Python web development isn't transferrable to PyPI, and working on PyPI isn't transferrable to anything else a Python web developer would be doing, and so it's unlikely that many, if any, people would be sufficiently motivated. Which points to rewriting as the best option, resulting in greater innate maintainability and a larger community of potential contributors. As to *what* it should be rewritten with, I frankly don't care so long as it's something reasonably well-known and well-understood within the broader Python web community, and speaks WSGI (which is essentially the same thing, but it needs to be said). That gives all sorts of options, from a lightweight stack on something like Werkzeug all the way up to a full framework solution with something like Pylons. To avoid the perennial holy wars that choice seems to engender, though, I'd suggest just asking Martin to pick something he feels he'd be comfortable with, and having everyone else who wants to help shut up and go with his choice. -- "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct." _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list Catalog-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
