[SQLObject] Fresh Python for Rotting Web Hosts

[David M. <da...@re...>]

Hi all,

While working on my (yet another) python-based active web framework, I 
hit on a dilemna.

I want my framework to be deployable on as wide a range of hosts as 
possible, even the < $10/month type hosts (the ones with the latest PHP, 
MySQL, but pitiful or no Python support). Such el-cheapo hosts these 
days often offer 40MB-100MB or more of disk space, but will not upgrade 
their python to later than 2.1 (or worse, 1.5.2), or install needed 
modules (eg MySQLdb).

The dilemna was whether to simply list python2.2 as a requirement (which 
SQLObject needs), but which excludes more than 90% of cheap hosts.

   OR

Switch to Metakit instead, but cope with a bunch of performance-draining 
concurrency issues.

The solution I came up with is a simple recipe for compiling Python 2.3 
or later on a local machine, and uploading the full binary Python tree 
to the host into one's user account (after some radical liposuction to 
trim the Python tree from 50+MB to more like 12MB).

All written up at:
http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/fresh-python-for-rotting-web-hosts.html

Walks the user through the steps of building Python, in such a way as it 
can run within a user's home directory on a cheap host.

So, with this particular problem solved, I've gone firmly in the 
SQLObject direction.

Hope others might find some value in this too.

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Kind regards
David

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