-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/02/2011 04:31 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Masklinn <maskl...@masklinn.net> wrote: > >> On 2011-01-02, at 21:38 , Alice Bevan–McGregor wrote: >>> On 2011-01-02 11:14:00 -0800, Chris McDonough said: >>>>> I'd suggest we just embrace it, adding minor tweaks as necessary, until >> we reach some sort of technical impasse it doesn't address. >>> Async is one area that 3333 does not cover, and that by not having a >> standard which incorporates async means competing, incompatible solutions >> have been created. >>> >> If I remember the previous Web3 discussion correctly, the result was >> basically that async has no business being shoehorned in WSGI, that WSGI's >> model is fundamentally unfit for async and you can't correctly support sync >> and async with the same spec, and therefore an asynchronous equivalent to >> WSGI should be developed separately, in order to correctly match the needs >> of asynchronous servers and interfaces, without the cruft and inadequacies >> of being forked from a synchronous gateway model. >> > > Masklinn, those are pretty strong words (bordering on offensive). I'm sure > Alice has a different opinion. Alice, hopefully you can write down your > ideas for all to see? Perhaps you have an implementation too? Maybe seeing a > concrete proposal will help us all see how big or small of a shoehorn will > be needed.
I didn't read that as offensive, but as an accurate description of the de-facto consensus of the SIG: there is a *very* small minority who want next-WSGI to address async issues (AFAIK, Alice and Manlio are the only active proponents). Tres. - -- =================================================================== Tres Seaver +1 540-429-0999 tsea...@palladion.com Palladion Software "Excellence by Design" http://palladion.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0hPasACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ6x5wCfdoX2n+Dpt5wQkY6i8Q8r7hlD J60An1ZszrZmyfB3S+IGmloHXM4JYTBg =WCCE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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