Re: gitweb, FastCGI and PSGI/Plack

From: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@gmail.com>
Date: May 10, 2010, 17:03 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTikH39rbm64sc0nn7eTBJSfxcqWpz6VXZBCQQIl3@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201005101232.32908.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> You have a CGI script and you want to turn it into a PSGI application,
>> hence we have CGI::Emulate::PSGI and CGI::Compile.
>>
>> You usually do not have a FCGI "application". You're writing a .fcgi
>> "wrapper" to make your CGI script runnable from a web server (like
>> you're doing with gitweb.fcgi).
>
> After thinking about it a bit, I realized that I don't want to have
> Plack::App::WrapFCGI wrapper (which if there are no FastCGI-only Perl
> web apps, e.g. using FCGI directly and which do not have support for
> running as ordinary CGI would be totally unnecessary), but I want to
> avoid price of using CGI::Compile.

Yes, that makes sense - if implementing FastCGI is just switching CGI to CGI::Fast and a while loop, implementing PSGI interface just for that is far more complicated. I just argued about it because i saw on a separate thread that PSGI implementation is also on its way.

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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa