-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/2010 02:31 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 26.09.2010 03:45, schrieb P.J. Eby: >> I'm actually a bit surprised people are bringing this up now, since when >> I announced the plan to make these changes, I said that nothing would be >> changed that would break anything > > I think people read this as "nothing would be changed, period." > > However, you did make substantial changes to the specification (or else > the whole exercise would have been pointless, I suppose, and you > couldn't have claimed that WSGI is now Python 3-friendly when it > previously was not).
The clarifications remove Python3-only ambiguities, making it possible for to implement both sides the spec sanely and consistently under Python 3. > So this is essentially a new version of the spec. As PEPs themselves > are not versioned (unlike, say, ISO standards), Guido insists it ought > to get a new PEP number. Then, people declaring compliance can identify > what specification they actually comply to. Declaring compliance to > PEP 333 as-of-last-week-but-not-as-of-today is now difficult. This > particularly puzzles people some of the existing WSGI servers are > now incompatible to the PEP, when they still were compatible last > week. PJE's claim is that there are *no* such servers: > So, no (previously-)compliant implementations were harmed in the > making of the updated spec. If they were compliant before, they're > compliant now. I hadn't realized that PEP 333 was never actually in the 'Final' status (de facto, it has been so for years, of course). Given that fact, and PJEs assurances, I think amending the PEP and then immediately declaring it final is reasonable. 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/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyfX6MACgkQ+gerLs4ltQ7tjgCfXP4SamlyjLenSsHib0O8E03d MbEAnR+lsNoUb7PH4NkdKNL1rToWXTsi =s5d7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com