WebSVN for Mercurial?

[Kevin Bullock]

On 16 Apr 2012, at 8:59 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:

> Kevin Bullock <kbullock+mercurial at ringworld.org> writes:
> 
>> On Apr 16, 2012, at 7:37 AM, Martin Geisler wrote:
>> 
>>> Tim Watts <tw at dionic.net> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> What would folks recommend as a good web repo browser for Mercurial?
>>>> 
>>>> Thinking of something like WebSVN in terms of abilities. This is for
>>>> convenience browsing only, of logs, files and diffs.
>>> 
>>> You can use the standard hgweb (Fast)CGI for that, it looks like this:
>>> 
>>> http://selenic.com/hg/
>> 
>> …but you probably want to hook it up via WSGI, not (Fast)CGI.
> 
> That's another good option. But you made me think: would FastCGI not be
> very close to WSGI in performance and memory usage?
> 
> As far as I know, both methods have a similar architecture where they
> keep a number of Python processes around to handle incoming requests.

Well, that depends on which WSGI container you're using—WSGI is just a protocol. I think the advantage of WSGI over FastCGI would be how widely and actively supported it is. FastCGI seems to have fallen out of favor (but this could just be my perception based on the sector of the tech world I live in).

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Kevin R. Bullock

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