Personal preferences aside, this would just be nice to have.

Support for JSON (maybe other formats too?) would be trivial to implement. Especially so for JSON, as Python has all the UTF-8 encoding magic build in.

The current output is:

./lazyserver.sh [-h] [-c filename.ini] [ARGS_to_paster ...]

   For example:
         ./lazyserver.sh -c fcgi.ini port_number=23371
     or: ./lazyserver.sh --server-name=fcgi --log-file=paste.log

   The configfile defaults to paste_local.ini,
   if that is readable, otherwise paste.ini.

However, port_number seems to be ignored completely:

serving on http://127.0.0.1:6543

On a fresh wheezy install with the normal mediagoblin dependencies as well as pkg-config and autoconf, I get the following error (and so do others on IRC):

cwebber@li313-33:~/mediagoblin$ ./bootstrap.sh && ./configure && make
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force 
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:152: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_MSG_ERROR
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
autoreconf: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1

I'm not having this happen in Jessie, and IIRC I even had this working right in Wheezy. Some package must be missing? But without knowing what it is, we can't make this the official recommended way to set up MediaGoblin.

So, two steps:

• First of all, change the docs so that the pyconfigure route is marked as "experimental" for now.
• Figure out what's missing and document it!