On Mar 3, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Chad Whitacre wrote: ... > > 1. Can we agree on a standard set of entry points so that WSGI > > applications can be combined automatically? I think Paste > > Deploy provides at least good start on this. > > > > You haven't commented on the entry points defined by Paste > > Deploy. Do you have an opinion on adopting the entry-point API > > defined by Paste Deploy? > > Ok, I need help: defining an entry point allows a plugin to > advertise that it can satisfy that entry point, but you still need > a configuration layer to actually wire it up, no?
Yes. > In which case: > > 1) What does "automatically" mean? It means that you don't have to write Python code to connect applications, servers, and middleware. > 2) Aren't we back to discussing config syntax? No. Entry points can be used by a variety of configuration syntaxes and by Python code. I should note that we can divide this discussion further, if we wish. Paste Deploy defines APIs and entry points for advertising objects that provide those APIs. The APIs are arguably the most essential thing to reuse from Paste Deploy. Entry points add *a* mechanism to make those objects a bit more discoverable. Arguably, specifying an application via: eggname#entrypointname doesn't provide much advantage over simply specifying the dotted path to an object in a module. If there were more tools for browsing for and working with eggs, then I think entry points would provide greater advantages as they would allow the tools to guide someone deciding how to reuse an egg by telling them about the components available. Personally, I think that use of entry points makes sense in a situation like this. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ 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
