Re: [Skunkweb-list] DNS failure exception by skunkweb

[Amit K. <khe...@gm...>]

On 6/27/07, Jacob Smullyan <jsm...@wn...> wrote:
> On 6/27/07, Amit Khemka <khe...@gm...> wrote:
>
> >  Hello All,
> >
> > I have been using skunkweb 3.4 , with good response so far.
> >
> > Lately i ran into a strange problem, In one of the pages i was
> > fetching data from an outside url,  (with urllib2 / python2.4) but
> >  skunkweb kept giving "URL Open Error: temporary failure in name
> > resolution" , though i am sure dns-setting are alright and the same
> > script works when executed independently.
> > Infact it worked well once i used the IP in the target url.
> >
> > Any ideas and hints why is skunkweb throwing dns-failure exceptions ?!
>
> I don't what the reason might be.  Does your script work when run under swpython?

I works perfectly with swpython , and infact on another machine also
which has a similar setup.
Let me explore more.

> >  Also on a side note, is there any active development going on with
> > skunkweb project ? It is strange not to find mention of this wonderful
> > ( atleast for me !) application in popular mailing lists/forums about
> > web-development with python .
>
> Yes and no.  I  and a few other people use skunkweb on a daily basis for work, but with very little work on the core.  (There are a few differences between SVN HEAD and the last release -- I'd suggest running off of HEAD in production if you see any bugs in the ChangeLog that look like they might affect you).  There is a "skunk4" project in SVN which has code in it which I use daily also -- the  skunk.cache package in particular -- but basically the project is dormant, out of lack of both my personal time and community interest.  But I could be galvanized if one or two other developers were interested in helping and working on a real skunk4.
>
> Also, there are two services in the latest releases that are basically undocumented (like most of skunkweb, alas) but that are very useful -- "mvc" and "layout".  The first lets you get away from the active page model when you want to (which in my case, is most of the time); the second gives you, in effect, template inheritance (although it isn't called that).
>

Well I have been using skunk for last two years in production and it
meets my expectations, along with able to handle huge loads. I once
even compared it with another popular python-framework for
load-testing, and skunk was better at task.
Though i admit i use skunk mostly to execute pure python scripts,
without using much of its additional services.

I guess skunk is behind in the race ( apart from the reason that there
is not much noise around it) because of lacking manuals and how-tos
and more tightly integrated services, which make deployments/switches
easy.

If there is something in my personal capacity i can do to contribute
to skunk i'll be more than happy to do it (If there is a general
interest in the python/skunk community in the project.)

Cheers,
amit.
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