[Soap-Python] rpclib & soaplib status update

[Tribaal]

Great news!

Thanks a lot!

- Chris

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Burak Arslan <burak.arslan at arskom.com.tr> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> With the recent work I've been doing, (ohloh says: Aug 3 — Sep 1, 1
> committer made 75 commits 93 files modified, 12559 lines added, 7707
> lines removed -- This is quite a rewrite for a 12kloc library.) I've
> mostly cleared my rpclib high-priority to-do list. It's once more a WS-I
> compliant soap server library, among many other things.
>
> I'm currently working on its documentation by plagiarizing from soaplib
> documentation where appropriate.
>
> You may remember that my original plan was to kill soaplib once I was
> out there with a decent version of rpclib. But then, I think Dieter was
> right when he said: """
>
> Names are highly important.
>
> Thus, if someone is interested in SOAP (and Python), "soaplib" is
> directly interesting for him. Background information is necessary,
> to recognize that "rpclib" may be relevant for him.
>
> """
>
> So, as we'd all agree that it'd be a waste of precious developer effort
> to keep both code bases around, I'd like to transform soaplib to a
> rpclib wrapper library and release it as soaplib-3.0. It'll also have
> additional, soap-specific goodies like @soap and @document decorators. I
> hope this will end the sad state of soap in python ecosystem by
> providing a mature and supported implementation of a useful subset of
> the soap standard.
>
> This is of course going to happen after I'm finished with polishing and
> documenting rpclib, so don't hold your breath. (unless somebody helps me
> with this)
>
> In the mean time, I'd like to encourage everybody to migrate to rpclib,
> as I sincerely find it much easier to work with. I've addressed most of
> the complaints about soaplib, and took the liberty of  making
> fundamental changes where appropriate. See the CHANGELOG (either in the
> source distribution, or here: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rpclib) to see
> if your favourite soaplib quirk was fixed.
>
> There's still much work and code clean-up to do, but I trust those are
> not going to necessitate a change to the public api. I plan to write a
> roadmap document as part of the documentation, before I delve into
> further coding.
>
> So that's mostly about it :)
>
> Best Regards,
> Burak
>
>
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