Bug#588497: New virtual package: httpd-wsgi
[Russ Allbery, 2010-07-19]
> Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org> writes:
> >> What other implementations of WSGI on the server side are there in
> >> Debian besides libapache2-mod-wsgi? I want to get a feel for how broad
> >> the usage of the virtual package would be.
>
> > gunicorn, python-pastescript, python-flup, python-cherrypy3, etc.
> > see http://wsgi.org/wsgi/Servers
>
> Oh, okay. I was looking at the package descriptions of some of those, but
> I couldn't figure out from that whether they actually provided a web
> server or were just the client glue.
all packages that provide httpd-wsgi should provide a web server, yes
(python itself is providing one, python-* packages listed above are
using it. I don't think pythonX.Y should provide httpd-wsgi although it
provides wsgiref module in stdlib, though)
> Is it your expectation that anything providing httpd-wsgi would be a full
> web server (capable of listening on port 80 to regular HTTP traffic, for
> example)? I'm trying to figure out how to write the proposed language.
yes
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