CGI may be old fashioned, but in my opinion Ron got the point. And for simple applications CGI is fast enough. I don't want to miss this option.
Klaus. -- Am 04.01.2011 um 18:57 schrieb hid...@gmail.com: > Because CGI is an old fashion way to make the things and is very different > from the strength web programming. I don't say that we have to abandon the > easy way but wsgi provides an easy way to work and with the PEP-3333 will be > able in Py3k so CGI will be no useless. > > El , Ron Stephens <rdst...@mac.com> escribió: > > CGI is by far the quickest and easiest way to write and deploy very simple > > web site scripts. As you move to improve Python for important industrial > > strength web programming, why not also continue to support quick and dirty > > web interactivity scripts? > > > > > > > > Ron Stephens > > > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > > > On Jan 4, 2011, at 7:53 AM, "P.J. Eby" p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > At 12:43 PM 1/4/2011 +0000, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > >> Alice Bevan McGregor 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list > > >> Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > > >> Unsubscribe: > > >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/pje%40telecommunity.com > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Web-SIG mailing list > > > > > Web-SIG@python.org > > > > > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > > > > > Unsubscribe: > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/rdsteph%40mac.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Web-SIG mailing list > > > > Web-SIG@python.org > > > > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > > > > Unsubscribe: > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/hidura%40gmail.com > > > >_______________________________________________ > Web-SIG mailing list > Web-SIG@python.org > Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/klaus.bremer%40bmcct.de _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
