[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: yesod 0.0.0 (web framework)

[Michael Snoyman]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Gour <gour at gour-nitai.com> wrote:

> [...]
>
> Michael> That said, I intend to port hack-handler-fastcgi to WAI in the
> Michael> not-too-distant future. If anyone needs it sooner, just send
> Michael> me an e-mail, it will probably take very little time to port
> Michael> since it was simply a layer on top of hack-handler-cgi.
>
> No, rush here, but the whole Yesod/WAI development looks quite
> encouraging that we can get solid platform for web development in
> Haskell pretty soon. :-)
>
> What about Happs guys? Are they involved in WAI?
>
> During the planning of WAI, they mentioned that Happstack uses the sendfile
system call for optimizing sending of static files. WAI includes support for
this now (look at the type of responseBody), so in theory Happstack could
work with WAI. In practice, I don't know if they have any plans of doing so,
though I hope they do.


> Michael> Of course, there's a whole range of WAI backends that are
> Michael> possible. SimpleServer is not that great a production server,
> Michael> so I wouldn't mind getting Hyena or Happserver working with
>
> Michael> If we get really adventurous, we could aim for a mod_haskell.
>
> If mod_haskell means Apache, we do not need it here preferring stuff
> like Cherokee/nginx/...
>
> I also wouldn't have a use for mod_haskell, but it seems every "cool kid on
the block" has it ;).

Michael
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