[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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> How much "maintenance" do you imagine the Zope2 ZServer requires? 

...

I have no idea.


> It is
> already basically feature complete (the Keep-Alive bit which kicked off
> this thread is a known exception),

AFAIK this thread was about Zope 3's ZServer, which, BTW, has very
little to do with Zope 2's (sadly).

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>> Right now, we have no good basis for judging the server alternatives.
> 
> There is the anecdotal / empircal one, which is that most "large" /
> high-traffic Zope sites are deployed successfully atop the Zope2
> ZServer:  it "just works" for the use cases we need.

That tells us that it works for Zope 2.  It doesn't tell us that there
isn't a WSGI server out there that works nearly as well, or better.
I'd definitely take a nearly as good server that we don't have to maintain
over one we do have to maintain.

Jim

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