using bzr with many small Python modules, forgetful person, and version numbers

[Jan Hudec]

On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:13:09PM -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> >Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> >[...]
> >>okay, I will give that a try.  Originally I was hoping to use my 
> >>standard Web server (Cherokee) but it seems to have problems with bzr
> >
> >Would you mind elaborating on this?  The bzr HTTP smart server is a WSGI
> >application, so it ought to work just fine with e.g. the FastCGI handler + 
> >and a
> >FastCGI WSGI server.  I'd be curious to know about the problems you're 
> >having,
> >in case it's an issue with the Bazaar side of things I'm not aware of.
> 
> maybe I didn't read the documentation carefully enough but I thought an 
> ordinary Web server could serve up read-only bzr repositories. 
> originally, I'd put a repository under this URL (.bzr/) 
> http://harvee.org/branches/mini_modules/
> 
> When I try to extract a branch, I am told that it is not a branch.  I 
> believe it has something to do with Cherokees reluctance to show a name 
> starting with a dot.  I have looked over the documentation and haven't 
> seen any way to make .bzr visible.

You don't need any way to make it visible -- http directory listings are
not machine parseable, which makes them completely useless, so they are
not used. Check, whether you can access <url>/.bzr/branch-format and
<url>/.bzr/branch/format -- that's what bzr tries to download to see
whether there is a branch there. Note, that you have to pass url to a
*branch* -- repository will *not* do.

> as for wscgi fcgi servers, let me know what's available (and simple 
> since unfortunately, I have very little time for playing around). 
> Cherokee can support fast cgi and scgi and if there is a wsgi  server 
> for either/both, I'm game to at least try a little bit.  Actually, I'm 
> also interested because I have a fairly time intensive CGI program I 
> need to convert to scgi or fast CGI.  although, that might reveal a 
> whole host of other sins.  :-)

http://trac.saddi.com/flup -- should support both FCGI and SCGI. Using
it is a matter of few-lines python script to be copied from the website.
(It's also mentioned in doc/http_smart_server.txt in bzr sources.)

> >I'd also like to be able to expand the Bazaar documentation to include 
> >examples
> >of configuring an HTTP server with more than just Apache, so if we can 
> >figure
> >out the right magic for Cherokee, we can document it for the next user.
> 
> amen to that.  I'll be glad to write up my configuration examples and 
> some documentation for how to use bzr with Cherokee.

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                  				- Jan Hudec `Bulb' <bulb at ucw.cz>