Suitability of Python for daemon processes

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

On 10/26/2009 12:37 AM, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>
>> On 10/25/2009 11:51 PM, Mike McGrath wrote:
>>> With all my babbling I forgot to mention we do already run python daemons
>>> in Fedora Infrastructure.  Func is one, TurboGears (though it's wrapped in
>>> mod_wsgi) and one that we wrote ourselves[1] is our mirrorlist server.
>>> It's the backend that powers:
>>>
>>> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=fedora-11&arch=i386
>>>
>>
>> And koji.fedoraproject.org, no?
>>
>
> Yes but I think it's more along the lines of a python script that gets
> called when a page gets loaded, it doesn't actually run statefully like
> our tg apps do.
>

But the backend does run python foo, right?

>> And translation is going through Django these days?
>>
>
> That's true, django is another one we run.  I bet there's a few more
> sitting around that we haven't thought of yet :)
>

I bet too ;-))

-- Jeroen