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On 10/09/12 07:23 -0400, Doug Hellmann wrote:
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>On Sep 10, 2012, at 5:23 AM, Julien Danjou <julien at danjou.info> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Sep 10 2012, Angus Salkeld wrote:
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>>> How do you guys feel about me changing flask to a more openstack style
>>> wsgi implementation? So the suggestion is not flask sucks, but it is not
>>> used anywhere else. We should really use it everywhere or nowhere. I think
>>> the consistency across the openstack projects is really nice for people
>>> that work across projects.
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>> Sure, one of our principles is to blend with others OS projects, so
>> obviously Flask choice can seem weird.
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>> But actually, IIRC, I've discussed this with Doug, and we decided to go
>> with Flask because it seemed that WSGI was a dead-end, and that other
>> projects would be moving away from it. So what's the roadmap for other
>> projects about this?
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>Not WSGI, paste.deploy. At the last summit we discussed dropping paste because it does not have python 3 support. No timetable was set.
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>I pushed the use of flask in ceilometer because when I looked at the WSGI libraries in nova they were not available in common and I didn't feel I had time to figure out which bits needed to be extracted to copy them into our project. I also found them to be more complex than I wanted to deal with, since I didn't find any tutorials for using them.

Yea, I was going to start on this blueprint soon:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack-common/+spec/wsgi-common
but if this is the case (moving away from wsgi.py) then this probably needs to be
scrapped.

Is there a wiki page/blueprint somewhere that explains this decision?

-Angus

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>Why does openstack have it's own WSGI library? Does it provide special features necessary for making openstack services?
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>Doug
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