Perhaps the addition of wsgi, disutils, and so on, calls for a v2 product.
- Mark On Jun 12, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Roger Haase <crosseyedpeng...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > --- On Fri, 6/12/09, Christoph Zwerschke <c...@online.de> wrote: > >> From: Christoph Zwerschke <c...@online.de> >> Subject: [Webware-devel] Webware 1.1 and beyond >> To: webware-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 12:50 AM >> As already announced, I have created >> a branch for the Webware for Python >> 1.0.x bugfix releases. >> >> Development in the trunk is now for release 1.1. >> >> The idea is to slowly modernize and future-proof Webware >> for Python. >> >> The 1.1 version will be the first step in the process with >> the main goal >> of trimming all the old cruft that existed to make Webware >> backward >> compatible down to Python 2.0, and use some of the newer >> Python features >> to simplify and streamline the code and make it a bit more >> performant. >> Things that have already been deprecated will be removed. >> >> The trimmed version will make development much less >> painful. >> >> Version 1.2 will then make more creative use of newer >> Python features. >> For instance, I can imagine converting some of the getter >> methods into >> properties. This means you would then be able to write >> self.request >> instead of self.request(). This would be done in a backward >> compatible >> way (e.g. by making request callable and returning self). >> Another idea >> is to use decorators for actions. >> >> Later versions will then tackle more involved things like >> replacing the >> Webware plugin and documentation system with something more >> modern and >> standard (I'm thinking of Distutils, pip, Sphinx etc.). >> >> I think we should also support WSGI. We could then replace >> mod_webkit >> with mod_wsgi. >> >> In the past I had been sceptical about the future of the >> ThreadedAppServer because it does not scale on multi-core >> and >> multi-processor hardware because of the GIL. So I had >> already suggested >> getting rid of it in the long run and simply making Webware >> a thin WSGI >> layer, and some were disappointed because of that. But >> there have been >> interesting developments in the last time - maybe this will >> be solved >> for us with the unladen swallow project and >> ThreadedAppServer will >> continue to be useful. So let's postpone that discussion. >> >> I will also use the new 1.1 version as an opportunity to >> break the long >> Webware tradition of using tabs instead of spaces. The >> thing is that >> using 4 spaces has become the most popular style and is >> recommended in >> PEP8. It's also used in all the other open source Python >> projects I'm >> contributing to; and I always forgot switching my editor >> for Webware. >> >> So from now on: >> >> "Thou shalt indent with four spaces. No more, no less. Four >> shall be the >> number of spaces thou shalt indent, and the number of thy >> indenting >> shall be four. Eight shalt thou not indent, nor either >> indent thou two, >> excepting that thou then proceed to four. Tabs are right >> out." >> >> -- Christoph >> > > Thank you for all your effort Christoph, > > I consider replacing tabs with spaces and wsgi support 2 giant steps > forward. > > Roger Haase > > > > > --- > --- > --- > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _______________________________________________ > Webware-devel mailing list > Webware-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Webware-devel mailing list Webware-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-devel
