[Zope3-dev] Re: Need to get more involved in Web SIG (was Re: Fixing ZServer bugs?)

[Jim Fulton]

Tres Seaver wrote:
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> Jim Fulton wrote:
>> Stephan Richter wrote:
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>>> I agree with your assessment. It is extremely difficult to figure out which 
>>> WSGI server fulfills Zope's criteria. In fact, I would suspect that only 
>>> ZServer (Zope 2 and 3 version) does, because noone else has such strong 
>>> requirements.
>> What requirements?  If we have such requirements, I suggest we reevaluate them.
>> *We do not want to be in the server business!*
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> We have performance and reliability expectations which come from running
> mission-critical applications.  Lots of the rest of the folks interested
> in servers don't have those requirements (yet, anyway), and hence aren't
> motivated to address them in their externally-maintained server
> implmentations.

I find it impossible to believe that others don't have such
mission-critical requirements.

> What is *worse* than maintaining our own server is trying to track
> development on somebody else's, where their goals don't match ours. 

Sure.

 > I'm
> guessing that the amount of effort required to "maintain" the Zope2
> server per month is less than the aggregate time spent by the community
> reading this thread. ;)

Probably, if someone was actually maintaining it and *if* Zope3 was
using it.

If we find that WSGI is inferior to the Zope 2 server, then I certainly
think that abandoning our various Zope 3 efforts is a reasonable
alternative, although unattractive, since I'm not aware of anyone
actively maintaining the Zope 2 server. I'd much rather
leverage a larger effort.

Right now, we have no good basis for judging the server alternatives.

Jim

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