On 2010-11-22, at 3:05 PM, Mark Ramm <mark.mchristen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would very much prefer it if we could keep the current name or choose a new > unrelated name, not wsgi2 as I think there API changes warrant a new name to > prevent confusion. Web3, as mentioned in previous mailing list traffic, is a registered trademark. Python Web and WSGI are closely linked in the public mind-space. (Sleep deprived an can't think of a better way to phrase that.) Finally, I, and seemingly Python core, interpret major version number changes as breaking; py3k having backwards-incompatible syntax changes. At a high level PEP 444 is /similar/ to WSGI in so far as the environ is a dict, and the returned values are a bytestring status, list of tuples for headers, and an iterable body. The inner implementation details seem a progressive enhancement and clarification of details which just happen to be backwards-incompatible. Preserving the WSGI name has marketing benefits, refines existing understanding of the server/middleware/application semantics rather than implying something /completely/ new, and increasing the version to 2.0 "clearly" declares the backwards-incompatibility. I think that Python 2 vs. 3 is a good comparison here; Python 3 has a different syntax and grammar, making it a fundamentally different language and is incompatible because of this. Why is it called Python and not Xyzzy? #python wouldn’t have to have ;) Web frameworks have been encountering this problem for some time; TurboGerars developers, e.g., have been mulling over migrating to Pyramid or another top-level metaframework and debating strategies for migration: point everyone at something else, create something new, or keep the name and associated recognition? Technically PEP 444 is incompatible, and wsgi.version = (2, 0) (and clear documentation) should indicate that. — Alice. _______________________________________________ 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
