From 99c08f7286aa9cbd44d59b9d851d60e8cb5e8d20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "R. Tyler Ballance" Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:45:52 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update README with some information/background --- README.markdown | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.markdown b/README.markdown index e69de29..26e8e7b 100644 --- a/README.markdown +++ b/README.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +django-moxy +============ + + +### What it is + +"Moxy" is a Django database backend for MySQL. Built on top of MySQLdb [0] +and Eventlet [1], it uses eventlet.db_pool to provide a greenthread-safe +means of accessing MySQL via MySQLdb's blocking calls. + + +### Why Moxy? + +Another member of the `#eventlet` channel on Freenode was soliciting for names +of a reverse proxying HTTP server he wrote built off of Eventlet. I suggested +the name "Moxy" which was well received until everybody started listing examples +of other projects named "Moxy". + +Since then it's become a kind of lame inside joke to suggest "Moxy" as the name for +any new project. + + + + +[0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/ +[1] http://eventlet.net