Well Tornado is light weight, it is it's own web server as well, so no need to run something like apache in front of it, and is a nice light framework. It's an eventd style process, so supports lots of connections very well, which would give you more flexibility is designing clients to work with it.
http://www.tornadoweb.org/ On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Pablo Cuadrado <pablocuadr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Gabriele: > > Yes, the idea is to make it light-weighted. However, I may add: it > would be nice (for us all) to use a framework which the community > feels comfortable with. > > I'm trying to find a balance between features and footprint, having a > small footprint is very important, but also, we want something > scalable for adding features on next versions of the UI. > > Sessions, IMHO, are useful in many ways on web interfaces, for > example, in user authentication (which the UI should have), > preferences, etc. > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 1:42 PM, gabriele renzi <rff....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Pablo Cuadrado <pablocuadr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> - Really small footprint is a plus: "do we really need to include > >> that, and that, and that other thing?" > > > > as I can imagine your app won't have any state per se, so you don't > > have any DB issues, you probably won't even need sessions, why not use > > simpler environments? I loved CherryPy some years ago, and there are > > plenty of new microframeworks such as Bottle which seem more fitting > > to _this_ bullet point than django and pylons. > > >
