On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 3:51 PM, P.J. Eby <p...@telecommunity.com> wrote: > At 08:48 AM 9/20/2009 -0400, Etienne Robillard wrote: >> >> Good plan but I'm afraid now only a bunch of elite people on this list >> is going to remember all the details on theses "upcoming" >> specifications. Why the rush to specify WSGI 3.0 and not focus >> mainly on the next one ahead ? > > Because having more versions of the spec is a bug, not a feature. How many > versions will a server or framework be reasonably expected to support? > > Also, note that changing the calling convention ensures that you can't > accidentally run an old application with a server that will be sending it > different information than it expects. This ensures that we can have clean > boundary conditions between spec versions, and can hopefully just have a > few, well-tested and battle-hardened converters. >
+1 for one new version with different behaviour. _______________________________________________ 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