Comments on: Phusion Passenger for Python?

By: Felix

Felix — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:40:19 +0000

Ruby has Rack, Python has WSGI and Perl has PSGI. You should think in adding support for PSGI too. It would make Passenger the most complete solution for deploying webapps.

By: Karl Blessing

Karl Blessing — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:24:38 +0000

Reading back on some of the comments. I too would love to see a version of Passenger dedicated for Python distribution, perhaps something that would make it easier to incorporate existing frameworks into Passenger (such as Django, Webpy, etc), however maintenance is still better than using fastcgi or proxy_pass to a separate WSGIServer when using it with Nginx.

By: Hongli

Hongli — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:43:36 +0000

Graham, I meant no offense with that comment. I was just pointing out that not everybody agrees with the way we designed Phusion Passenger, which is fine. That said, I’ve taken note of your comment.

By: Graham Dumpleton

Graham Dumpleton — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:29:58 +0000

You are putting a lot of emphasis on my comments which are undeserved. I was taking issue with one minor aspect in relation to how you hook into Apache. As you will know that constitutes only a few percent, if that, of what your overall application does and is really a very insignificant point. So please don’t try and characterise me as having an issue with ‘many design choices’ of Phusion Passenger and disparaging me for not seeing it as a ‘work of art’, as it is stretching the truth a great deal. FWIW, I have still never even found time to look beyond that few dozen lines of code in Phusion Passenger and because of that I have never commented on Phusion Passenger at all in regards to its core functionality.

By: Giuseppe

Giuseppe — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:22:59 +0000

Phusion Passenger for Python would be GREAT, we really need a good option for Python deployment on shared hostings.

By: Herberth Amaral

Herberth Amaral — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:00:15 +0000

I develop in PHP since 2005 and the most painful part in Python adopting was the deployment. There is a set of ways to deploy a Python app, but none so trivial as PHP deployment and this confused me (probably many ohter people too..).

So, it would be great to see Phusion Passenger for Python

By: axaroth

axaroth — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:53:18 +0000

Not sure about what you are talking regarding python. I have used several frameworks but for the most Zope and never I have had problem to deploy an application. I think this is due to the fact that I use Apache only as a proxy: Zope has its web server and for simple applications I use ‘paster serve’. I have had always a dedicated machine or a provider with support for Python.

By: Mengu

Mengu — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:42:34 +0000

Passenger made deployment as easy as PHP for Ruby so I think it would be very good to deploy Python web application with Passenger.

By: Karl Blessing

Karl Blessing — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:33:26 +0000

Thanks for your comment on my Passenger + Ngnix + Python article here : http://kbeezie.com/view/using-python-nginx-passenger/

I’ll be updating some of the information when I get a chance from what you mentioned regarding rails and such.

By: Robson Mendonça

Robson Mendonça — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:09:33 +0000

I believe the python deployment is not a problem when you have a VPS or Dedicated server, because you have the necessary freedom to do what you want to do. But If all us believe that python or ruby are better than PHP, we must all agree with the fact that PHP deployment is completely gracefully and painless.
So, I believe that something like Phusion Passenger can contribute a lot to became the deployment of python applications on shared environments more easy and painless.

Manda ver!