Lateral Opinion

Trac is cool. Easy to set up, easy to run, low maintenance, and you get:

• A ticketing system
• Milestones
• A webcvs-like thing for subversion
• A wiki (I mean,. what doesn't provide a wiki nowadays?)
• Bug reporting tool
• The bug reporting tool and the subversion changesets can be linked using Wiki markup (now that's cooler than it sounds ;-)
• You don't need to be root to set it up, and you don't need apache or anything else, really.

Really, really nice stuff.

On the other hand, CherryPy is a tool that lets you "publish your python objects on the web", which doesn't really mean much, but here's what I figured out:

Cherrypy is the first way I have seen to write a useful web-based app in a reasonable amount of time and pain.

Example, I wrote a frontend to clamav (allowing me to remotely trigger scans of individual nodes on a network) using Cherrypy and pyclamav in about 200 lines of code.

It works like a charm, it's robust, it even can be made to look nice using some sort of templating engine (haven't bothered yet).

And of course, I control that baby using a Trac project :-)