I second the move, recorded here: http://listtree.appspot.com/wsgi2/ICvaujouPxb2gfEhDS_aiw
-- Aaron Watters --- On Thu, 11/26/09, James Y Knight <f...@fuhm.net> wrote: > From: James Y Knight <f...@fuhm.net> > Subject: [Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec > To: "Web SIG" <web-sig@python.org> > Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 8:42 PM > I move to bless mod_wsgi's definition > of WSGI 1.1 [1] as the official definition of WSGI 1.1, > which describes how to implement WSGI adapters for both > Python 2.x and 3.x. It may not be perfect, but, it's been > implemented twice, and seems ot have no fatal flaws (it > doesn't do any lossy transforms, so any issues are > irritations at worst). The basis for this definition is also > described in the "WSGI 1.0 Ammendments" [2] page. > > The definitions as they stand are clear enough to > understand and implement, but not currently in spec-worthy > language. (e.g. it says "should" and "may" in a colloquial > fashion, but actually means MUST in some places and SHOULD > in others, as defined by RFC 2119) > > Thus, I'd like to suggest that Graham (if he's willing?) > should reformat the "Definition"/"Ammendments" as an actual > diff against the current PEP 333. Then, I will recommend > adopting that document as an actual standard WSGI 1.1, to > replace PEP 333. > > This discussion has gone on long enough, and it doesn't > really matter as much to have the perfect API, as it does to > have a standard. > > James > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/SupportForPython3X > [2] http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0 > > _______________________________________________ > 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/arw1961%40yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ 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