Bug#588497: New virtual package: httpd-wsgi
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 08:01:04PM +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> [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
To clarify: does installing httpd-wsgi should result in a webserver being up and running
at port 80 ? (installing python certainly does not do that).
Would that description be OK:
httpd-wsgi A WSGI capable HTTP server
Are there other developper maintaining WSGI related packages to second this ?
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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