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[David Borowitz <dborowitz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 13:31, Augie Fackler <durin42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On May 26, 2010, at 11:48 AM, David Borowitz wrote:
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>  I'm definitely open to the idea of simplifying and/or combining dul-daemon
>> and dul-web. To be honest, it feels a little messy every time I have to
>> add
>> more code to one of those scripts. In my ideal world, these wrapper
>> scripts
>> would contain as little code as possible (basically "if __name__ ==
>> '__main__': start_server('http', sys.argv[1:])").
>>
>> Another possibility that moves in a slightly different direction is to use
>> setuptools's entry points:
>>
>> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation
>>
>> <
>> http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools#automatic-script-creation
>> >(Tangentially,
>> the reason I added the logging code to dul-web was that I didn't want to
>> put
>> the WSGI handlers in web.py, since wsgiref is not part of the python2.4
>> standard library. That said, every python2.4 system I have has wsgiref
>> installed, and I'm sure we could come up with a conditional import scheme
>> that fails gracefully.)
>>
>
> I'd be a _huge_ fan of using entry points instead of maintaining scripts -
> manually maintained scripts are often a colossal pain when using something
> like virtualenv or buildout.
>

I agree, that's why I suggested it :)

The only downside as far as I can see is that it introduces a dependency on
setuptools, but pretty much everyone has setuptools anyway (don't they?).
Maybe it's possible to do something equivalent with distutils but I don't
know how.


>  On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:14, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> At the moment we have two separate scripts for running the git smart
>>> protocol server - one for git:// and one for http://. I noticed that
>>> your last patches add more code to dul-web; would you perhaps be open to
>>> the idea of merging the two and e.g. having a command-line switch to
>>> choose the protocol to use?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Jelmer
>>>
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