From: Patrick May <patrick@...>
Date: 2004-08-20T12:35:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Webshare

Hello,

On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 10:02  PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:
> What do I need? A standard interface for requests and responses that
> lets me treat various backends as if they were effectively the same.
> A way of handling caching might not be bad -- but it needs to be
> smart enough for me to deal with the reality that my most expensive
> cost is rendering the HTML from the Wiki source, but that I have to
> deal with the possiblity that changes to pages *other* than the page
> I'm rendering may require that the current page cache be
> invalidated. I will probably need session support; I will need
> cookie support.
>
> I can do all of this myself -- and, given time, I will. As I have
> done with Diff::LCS, and will probably do with other bits and pieces
> of Ruwiki, I will look at what bits can be parceled off and made
> into their own libraries or are natively their own libraries as soon
> as I get Ruwiki done to the point where I can examine this. If
> someone offers me libraries to do this. I'd rather see multiple
> small libraries that focus on individual functionality so that I can
> mix and match functionality.
>
> I have looked at Narf a couple of times... it doesn't quite do what
> I need, though.

ok.  I thought that was what I should be doing.  I got distracted and 
wrote a testing framework to build a wiki.  I'll get back to:

* supporting multiple backends (cgi, mod_ruby, fastcgi, webrick)
* improving session support

and I already have (ok, this is a little weak)

* cookie support

I think caching is pretty algorithmic, and would be more useful if it 
wasn't a in a web framework.

Cheers,

Patrick