Is there any equivalent of XAMPP for Pylons?

Question

I'd like to get started with Pylons, to be used on a Windows machine as a local web server. Is there any equivalent of e.g. XAMPP for Pylons that would set up everything with one installer?

Edit: I've just discovered the Pylons web server. Could I use this to serve pages to computers on a LAN?

Answer 1

One thing that you could do is use mod_wsgi with XAMPP. Unfortunately I am not aware of any installers for that combination.

You almost never want to use the web server built into the framework, but Pylons uses Paste, which is quite a bit more capable than most stock web servers so that could be an acceptable alternative if you don't need httpd.

Answer 2

pylons can be installed using easy_install or unzipping the tarball and running "python setup.py install" (like any python package).

the great google god machine says it's possible to run a wsgi app under IIS(shudder),

other than that, once you have your pylons application written, consider running it as a windows service