On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Daniel Holth <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I stumbled across https://apphosted.com as more web application package > > and format 'prior art'. It appears to be an App Engine competitor. > > According to their API documentation, their deployment format is an archive > > containing a single directory with your WSGI program and a metro.config. > > They put the database configuration in a settings.py written into the > > application's root with defined DB_URI, etc. > > > There's something that bothers me about using settings.py, though I guess > it's not that different from a YAML file or whatever, though with a > cleverness danger. Conveniently you could do sys.modules['settings'] = > new.module('settings') and avoid ever making a real file. > I would think something like YAML would be better simply b/c it might fit in more easily with an implementation that may not use Python. A dashboard app might want to loop through a bunch of sandboxes and read the listening ports/hosts for example to help find what it needs to monitor. The converse of course is that an environment could prescribe something like a port, host, database string, etc. by updating the YAML file. Again, by using something like YAML, whatever is provisioning the environment doesn't necessarily need to be written in Python.
Eric > Using the name "settings" *specifically* is likely to cause name clashes with > existing Django applications. > > Ian > > _______________________________________________ > 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/eric%40ionrock.org >
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