Dominic, it seems you are responding to a discussion that is happening elsewhere rather than this discussion.
> I have been pushed to explain the use case and finally the discussion was > about this use case and the question became this use case. > You provided the use case in your original post. I have requested that you provide some further details regarding setup, update process, etc., and suggested it would be helpful for you to detail a workflow (perhaps based on what you have seen with PHP frameworks), but those requests were with regard to your interest in a wrapper application. The reason is there are different ways of thinking about and implementing a "wrapper," and the best approach depends on the context. For example, the wrapper could be a shell application, and the application developer could provide an application that simply unzips on top of that (or could provide a set of web2py plugins to serve as the application), but the applicability of that approach would depend on the setup, business rules, and update mechanism. > Perhaps, the rule here is that a question should be how to address a > practical use case with no attach to a particular approach. > No, there is no rule, but if you are looking for a specific solution, you must specify the problem in sufficient detail. Just saying "wrapper application" is too vague. > There was some suggestions here that the use of wrapper applications is > not a different approach. > And where have you seen this suggestion? > I have been talking about the value of the concept of wrapper application > to pass the config file location, but it was not my intention at all to > discuss that. I just wanted to know if it is possible to do this in web2py > as we can in PHP [without an extra HTTP request]. I do not complain. I > appreciate very much what we discuss and I am sure we will find a way to > wrap an application in web2py without an extra HTTP request. It just did > not happen, because we did not focus on this and instead tried to argue > that it is not interesting. > But it did happen, in the second sentence of this entire discussion. Anthony -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
