| BPirkle added a comment. |
I’m also a soft lean to Guzzle. It seems more active recently than most of the alternatives, suitable to our needs, and generally popular. I hate to overweigh “popularity” as a metric, but in the case of open source, momentum doesn’t hurt. It is also much easier to google for, as searching for "requests" gives a flood of false positives.
It seems like Requests is less active - the author says as much here:
https://github.com/rmccue/Requests/issues/320
However, that’s not necessarily negative, it could simply mean the library is stable. Its continued use WordPress should help maintain its critical mass, and gives us a reference implementation (for whatever that is or isn't worth).
My goals with this conversation are
- avoid burning unnecessary time by exploring obvious dead ends, or missing an obvious winner
- gather sufficient consensus and detail to create a properly focused subtask for the actual implementation
I don't mind at all doing exploratory implementations with both Guzzle and Requests as part of that process. (In fact, I already have them both installed in my local copy of mediawiki and have confirmed that basic GET operations work happily with both.)
At this point, I think I'll explore Guzzle for more sophisticated usages, and await comments from @Krinkle to decide if I should do the same for Requests.
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