The WSGI PEP is a bit of a funny thing, since it's a PEP that doesn't really involve the language or stdlib. (I guess there's wsgiref, but I don't think it being in the stdlib actually affects much these days.)
What are you hoping to accomplish by making ASGI a PEP? -n On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Andrew Godwin <and...@aeracode.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'd like to breach the topic of standardising an asynchronous successor to > WSGI - specifically, the ASGI specification I and a group of other Python > web developers have been refining over the past couple of years (you can > read more at https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). > > I'm unsure of the best approach to take for this, given a couple of factors: > > - Web SIG has been basically dead for at least two years and several > maintainers I know unsubscribed from it last time as things got toxic. It > appears to not be a good place to start this discussion, but maybe it can be > revived? > > - The specification as I would propose it is two or three parts - an > overall interface for asynchronous servers to talk to applications and then > a separate specification(s) of how to transport HTTP and WebSockets over > that. Would this be multiple PEPs? > > I'd appreciate advice from you all on these questions as well as what you > think the best way to even approach something like "let's add a WSGI > successor" is. > > My initial approach was to go away and prove something in real-world use and > across a variety of frameworks, and we seem to have got to that point, and > so now I would like to start making it more official. > > I'm more than ready to take the specification we have and start prepping it > to land into the PEP repo for further discussion, but I wanted to check in > here first before jumping the gun (and besides, there's already plenty of > specs, write ups, and reference code to discuss the merits of this). > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
