Hi Henk. Haven't had a good chance to look at your project yet. Always interested in new wsgi implementations. Sounds interesting what you are doing. Recommend you jump on #repoze irc to talk about this. You will normally find a great group with plenty expertise to talk about this sort of thing.
Regards, David On 13-Mar-09, at 11:15 AM, Henk wrote: > > Hi, > > I am the author of Concurrence (http://opensource.hyves.org/ > concurrence), a framework for creating massively parallel network > applications. > The framework also includes a fast WSGIServer, so naturally I would > like to (re)use Pylons to build web-applications on top of it... > > However, the Concurrence framework is not based on threading for > concurrency, but instead uses libevent + tasklets (trough stackless or > greenlets). This allows you to write code in a familiar sequential > 'blocking' style, but at the same time, IO is handled asynchronously > behind the scenes... > > The problem with using Pylons as a web-framework on top of it comes > from the fact that some parts of Pylons (beaker, routes) rely on the > python threading libraries for things like locking and thread locals. > Thus there is a hard coded assumption that pylons apps will always be > deployed in a threading based WSGI Server. > > Instead of trying to monkey patch Pylons or the standard python > threading libraries with my equivalents (TaskLocal), would it not be > nice if the threading stuff could be factored out of Pylons and that > it would be up to the 'container / WSGIServer' to provide these > services trough some well defined API? > > Maybe this is something that should be handled at the WSGI level, but > I would like to hear any thoughts on this from the Pylons devs... > > Cheers, > > Henk Punt > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pylons-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to pylons-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to pylons-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pylons-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
