Re: [Social-mediagoblin] Config branch merged, new server running command(s)

[will kahn-greene]

I don't understand the difference between "server" and "application" here.

What are "server" and "application" in this context?


On 06/19/2011 04:39 PM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> Several things else of note:
>   - There are now two config files, server.ini and mediagoblin.ini.
>     Configuring the server launching via paste deploy is the former,
>     configurating the application is now the latter.
>   - You now have access to the config data in
>     mediagoblin.mg_globals.global_config (the whole config file)
>     mediagoblin.mg_globals.app_config (just the ['mediagoblin'] section)
>   - We now have auto-type-conversion, validation, and defaults in the
>     config file.  If you are adding new config parameters, you can do so
>     in:  mediagoblin/config_spec.ini
>
>   - The application is *much* easier to initialize if you are writing
>     code that initializes the application itself.  All you have to do is:
>
>       >>>  from mediagoblin.app import MediaGoblinApp
>       >>>  myapp = MediaGoblinApp('path/to/mediagoblin.ini')
>
>     ... the application will handle setting up globals in mg_globals and
>     etc for you.
>
> If you have any questions let me know!  Thanks again, Bernard!