RE: [Zope] 2.6.3 --> 2.7.0: Where's my w_pcgi?
-----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org] On Behalf Of Subject: Re: [Zope] 2.6.3 --> 2.7.0: Where's my w_pcgi?
Hi Wolfgang,
PCGI was abandoned and the docs unfortunately don't reflect this fact. I've been looking pretty closely, and you're the first person to ask for this since 2.7.0 was released.
Just because somebody didn't ask for it doesn't mean they wouldn't use it if it was there. I just happened to know that it was abandoned so there was really no reason for me to ask. That being said, I'm not upgrading to 2.7.x precisely because it doesn't have PCGI and I don't have a convenient way of achieving what I want with 2.7.x for one particular Plone site I'm involved in. Yes, I know there are other ways to accomplish what PCGI does. The problem is that I'm not the admin for the server itself and there is a fairly complex authentication scheme in place. The other complication is that the front-end web server isn't Apache (its iPlanet or whatever iPlanet is called these days). That means very little documentation exists to help me. -- Mike
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 14:11, Tiller, Michael (M.M.) wrote:
Just because somebody didn't ask for it doesn't mean they wouldn't use it if it was there. I just happened to know that it was abandoned so there was really no reason for me to ask.
I realize this. I did ask on the list way back about dropping support and received no response whatsoever, which I took as a resounding "ok", which was presumptous certainly but no one jumped up to help either. ;-) It would have been quite hard to integrate PCGI resource setup into the current setup process (which is actually pretty simple, as it uses distutils to do most of the hard work).
That being said, I'm not upgrading to 2.7.x precisely because it doesn't have PCGI and I don't have a convenient way of achieving what I want with 2.7.x for one particular Plone site I'm involved in.
Well, luckily you're not forced to upgrade. FWIW, the support still exists in Zope's configuration (via the pcgi-server server type), there's just no way to create the PCGI resource files with the current installer. I think it would be pretty easy for someone to come up with a PCGI resource installer that was separate from Zope using the stuff from 2.6 should they need to. - C
Well, luckily you're not forced to upgrade. FWIW, the support still exists in Zope's configuration (via the pcgi-server server type), there's just no way to create the PCGI resource files with the current installer. I think it would be pretty easy for someone to come up with a PCGI resource installer that was separate from Zope using the stuff from 2.6 should they need to.
How would I do that? Would it be an acceptable way to get the pcgi from Zope 2.6.3, see how they make the resource files, snip that code, and make a tarball of it? If that's all it takes, I can have a look at it within the next couple of weeks (I don't want to mock you, I am just pretty much taken at present). I would be thrilled to contribute back to the Zope community. If that's not all it takes, I would be glad for a pointer. Cheers, Wolfgang
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 03:50, Wolfgang Müller wrote:
Well, luckily you're not forced to upgrade. FWIW, the support still exists in Zope's configuration (via the pcgi-server server type), there's just no way to create the PCGI resource files with the current installer. I think it would be pretty easy for someone to come up with a PCGI resource installer that was separate from Zope using the stuff from 2.6 should they need to.
How would I do that? Would it be an acceptable way to get the pcgi from Zope 2.6.3, see how they make the resource files, snip that code, and make a tarball of it?
Pretty much.
If that's all it takes, I can have a look at it within the next couple of weeks (I don't want to mock you, I am just pretty much taken at present). I would be thrilled to contribute back to the Zope community.
That would be great. - C
PCGI was abandoned and the docs unfortunately don't reflect this fact. I've been looking pretty closely, and you're the first person to ask for this since 2.7.0 was released.
I remember this being discussed, and I didn't remember PCGI being abandoned... So, the question then is: What do you do when you don't have PCGI but need that functionality?
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 17:04, Lennart Regebro wrote:
PCGI was abandoned and the docs unfortunately don't reflect this fact. I've been looking pretty closely, and you're the first person to ask for this since 2.7.0 was released.
I remember this being discussed, and I didn't remember PCGI being abandoned... So, the question then is: What do you do when you don't have PCGI but need that functionality?
Get 2.6 and run ./configure from the pcgi directory; there may be more to it than that, but that's the basics.
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Chris McDonough -
Lennart Regebro -
Tiller, Michael (M.M.) -
Wolfgang Müller