On Wed, 17 May 2006 16:51:06 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@cpushare.com> wrote:
I started using web2 in production about 4 months ago and it's stable (there were bugs but I've fixed them all). Grepping for 'grep -ri nevow' over my tree shows zero hits for about two months. The web2 API rightfully isn't stable but people that is ok with slight change of APIs (changes that hopefully won't require a total rewrite of the application) should be allowed to start porting their apps to web2, and infact in the last 4 months the API has not changed singificantly, and it seems quite mature, much better than web1.
"allowed"? What's stopping anyone from using it?
It is now time to make web2 mainstream, implementing any potentially missing feature (I never tested the web2 client side for example, that may not be mature as the server side yet) and leave for web3 any huge changes that isn't strictly necessary and that would requires a total rewrite of the apps. Twisted-web userbase shouldn't lose more time on the obsolete twisted.web1 api. There is people like me that needs something with much more scalable and simpler to code with than web1+neovw. twisted.web2 + cheetah (or other rendering templates) fills this gap nicely. I hope that the huge nevow dependency of divmod products generates no conflict of interest with change. Web2 always gest installed in Twisted-HG (including all web2 fixes that are pending and that I'll post to twisted-web list shortly).
Sorry, you don't get to dictate the course of development of projects you don't even usefully contribute to. twisted.web2 is unstable and will continue to change incompatibly until at least the _obvious_ shortcomings have been addressed. Jean-Paul