On Jul 7, 2007, at 3:01 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: > Jim Fulton wrote: >> On Jul 6, 2007, at 11:41 PM, Ian Bicking wrote: >>> Every so often I get in this cleanup/redux mood where I feel a >>> need to >>> revisit things I've done before in an attempt to Do Them Right. >>> >>> We've discussed Paste Deploy here before, and I'm thinking about >>> Redoing >>> It Right. >> Cool. >>> I thought I'd share some thoughts on the design: >>> >>> I still am quite happy with the entry points from Paste Deploy, >>> and plan >>> to keep them, >> Me too. In fact, I'd really like them to have their own identity >> independent if Paste Deploy. People should start supporting these >> entry points even if they use some other application to put them >> together. > > I've tried to encourage people to use this, but they get stuck on the > word "paste", so there's not many other people who consume or produce > these entry points except for use with Paste or related packages > (Pylons, etc). I'm not sure what to do about that, except perhaps to > reset people's opinions with this rewrite.
Well, this touches a nerve with me. I have a similar problem with people rejecting out of hand anything that happens to live in the zope or even the zc namespace. Similarly, at PyCon, I try to always give at least talk that I think will be generally interesting to the Python community at large, yet many people tend to assume that these are Zope specific. I think this behavior is extremely unhealthy for the Python community. Paste deploy is the only effort I've seen to provided a much-needed glue layer for WSGI. It doesn't matter one bit to me what it's called. It tries to fill a basic need. Now I'm all for competition. If someone really wanted to come up with something better, then I wouldn't mind seeing someone try, but nothing else is happening AFAICT. I certainly have other things I want to work on. Paste Deploy is a really good start and, FWIW, the Zope community is embracing it. Jim -- Jim Fulton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Python Powered! CTO (540) 361-1714 http://www.python.org Zope Corporation http://www.zope.com http://www.zope.org _______________________________________________ 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