Re: gitweb, FastCGI and PSGI/Plack

From: Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@gmail.com>
Date: May 10, 2010, 18:43 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTilXqAUs5-go-JHgTrQuslTyA1sZ3re5yuLtnxkz@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201005102040.36490.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2010, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa wrote:

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>> 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.
>
> What!?  No, currently there are no plans to add PSGI support to gitweb,
> nor moving gitweb from CGI (and mod_perl's ModPerl::Registry, and
> FastCGI now) to PSGI.
>
> This separate thread is about adding support for 'plackup' to
> git-instaweb (and perhaps also adding gitweb.psgi wrapper).

Yes, that's what i meant.

If you get plackup support by converting your CGI application into a PSGI app, then adding support to FastCGI is just one command line option away.

-- 
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa