On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:31 AM, dlypka <dly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry I am not clear regarding your reply. > Let me rephrase the question: > > If your company selects web2py as its development tool, > what platform do you expect to run web2py on - > .NET (in which case I believe web2py would be using Iron Python),
As an application, web2py requires Python interpreter to run. Or a Python compatible interpreter. It requires a webserver to host it as a webapplication (and comes with a builtin server as default). It usually uses a database server for persistent store. web2py can be hosted by several web webservers (e.g. can run under it's own included cherrypy based; can run under Apache; etc.) It can use any of several database servers. The db server needs to be accessible on the network to web2py; there is no reason they need to be on the same physical server. .NET is a software framework intended to be installed on Windows (but there is Mono); It includes a virtual machine, and libraries. web2py is not specifically designed nor expected to run under .NET - as you say, that would imply running under the IronPython interpreter -- the .NET parallel of jython for Java VM. web2py is written and tested under C-Python, that is the Python interpreter written in C, and compiled natively to target. web2py requires Python 2.5.2 or later (I think that's correct); it is known to have problems under 2.6.1, but works fine under 2.6.2. Any VM that that runs a Python 2.5.2 compatible interpreter and libraries may be able to run web2py. > > or > Non .NET such as the usual web2py distro for Windows XP (but with > an Enterprise flavor of the SQL Engine and Web server)? I know people have had web2py run as a windows service (which implies using the builtin cherrypy based server, not IIS); There have been some AlterEgo postings about getting web2py to run under IIS - you can check those also. Database server and web server are separate questions: you can run web2py (for example) on ubuntu under Apache and mod_wsgi, and connect to a SQL Server running on Windows-Server for the database backend. Most discussions you see here are about web2py running under C-Python's on various native targets - Linux, Mac, Windows, as well as GAE (which, I guess, is also a native C-Python running on a "cloud"). You may be facing more considerations - for example working alongside webapplications written in a .NET language. If you just want to extend those, and write in python, then IronPython might be a viable path. If you want to use web2py facilities for managing web requests, that is a different consideration (you can potentially interact with .NET solutions through webservices) Hope this was helpful. - Yarko > > On May 22, 8:51 am, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote: > > I believe it will be run completely on .net, not Iron Python. > > > > On May 22, 8:29 am, dlypka <dly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Do you intend to run on .NET (Iron Python?) or completely non .NET? > > > > > On May 21, 2:06 pm, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to convince a client to go with web2py vs. with asp/.net. > > > > I'm wondering if anyone could offer some comparisons of the two that > > > > could give me some ammunition to make my case?- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
