At 01:07 PM 8/16/2005 -0700, Robert Brewer wrote: >Phillip J. Eby wrote: > > To put it another way, I see an opportunity here to > > educate developers about better ways of doing things, > >I (and some of the other CherryPy devs) agree that there are better >ways, particularly when using a persistent server process.
It's nice to know I'm not the only crazy one around here. ;) >The issue for us as framework developers is that the wasteful ways are >*already* institutionalized. Education is a worthy goal, but if it takes >5 years to convince a majority of Python web developers that they don't >need sessions, we need safe and strong implementations of sessions in >the interim. I think that if we chose to ship CherryPy, for example, >without any session functionality, we'd lose the very audience we want >to educate. So make a session store that uses cookies only, and upsell it as your new "RESTful session storage option, with infinite scalability". ;) The flip side is then getting more good relationally-backed persistence systems out there, to take up the complex-objects side of the equation. _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
