Suitability of Python for daemon processes

[Mike McGrath]

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.

> 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 :)

	-Mike