On Jan 20, 10:31 am, Mike Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> - it may be time to move to a post-WSGI standard a la the "WSGI 2"
> proposals, since we'll have to change WSGI anyway.  However,
> politically getting a WSGI update into the Python core is a long slow
> process, so maybe we should just do something under a new name.
> - Pylons 3 makes a good transition point, in that we can base the new
> tools on 2.6/3.0.

I would agree that need to start looking towards WSGI 2.0 and Python
3.0 would be a good trigger for that. Not only would WSGI 2.0 be a
good focus point for clarifying areas of current WSGI specification,
would be a good point to look at more fundamental changes such as any
required to support chunked request content and the concept of
mutating input filters. It seems that chunked request content is
becoming popular with mobile phone devices when posting data more than
a certain size. At the moment WSGI cant handle chunked request
content, so you can't use existing Python WSGI applications if you
have a heavy focus on those sorts of clients. There are obviously
various other things about current WSGI that people find annoying as
well.

Another area which needs to be fleshed out better is the
initialisation of the environment that surrounds the application. In
Paste server it does some initialisation of logging modules, mainly
targeted at Pylons, which it can be argued it shouldn't. If hosting
Pylons on another web hosting mechanism, you have to duplicate that
internal initialisation that is being done by Paste server. So, some
sort of abstraction for an application which ensures that such
environment initialisation issues are also dealt with could be
beneficial.

Graham
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