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Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services

posted by janrinok on Thursday January 31 2019, @04:41PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-javascript! dept.

canopic jug writes:

Full-time Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) developer Drew DeVault has written a blog post about why he chose Flask for his version control system, sr.ht. sr.ht is similar to GitLab and GitHub but is 100% FLOSS and somewhat decentralized. People are both able and encouraged to host on their own machines. The web pages for the web interface average less that 10 KiB and contain neither tracking nor JavaScript.

sr.ht is a large, production-scale suite of web applications (I call them "mini-services", as they strike a balance between microservices and monolithic applications) which are built in Python with Flask. David Lord, one of the maintainers of Flask, reached out to me when he heard about sr.ht and saw that it was built with Flask. At his urging, I'd like to share the rationale behind the decision and how it's turned out in the long run.

The whole of sr.ht is now in public alpha.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NPC-131072 on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:13PM

    by NPC-131072 (7144) on Thursday January 31 2019, @10:13PM (#794734) Journal

    Hello fren,

    you can of course also use git purely locally with no repository whatsoever.

    I think you need a local repository.

    So I'm now really wondering why this person is so excited about reinventing the wheel.

    It's project management [meta.sr.ht] using git for source control.

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