[Web-SIG] wsgiref questions

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 09:55 AM 12/22/2006 -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>(Also, wsgiref violates a couple of Python style guides that make me
>not want to update it myself. Phillip promised he would clean it up
>for distribution but never did,

I only have the vaguest recollection of you mentioning this, but can't find 
any actual emails about it.  As far as I know, I incorporated fixes for all 
of your bug reports, either using your patches or my own.  Would you mind 
refreshing my memory as to the style issues or "ideosyncracies" you are 
referring to?


>  so the version distributed with Python
>2.5 has a few strange ideosyncracies that I'm afraid to clean up
>because last time someone touched Phillip's code he threw a fit.)

If by "fit" you mean the one email I sent to Python-dev requesting that 
others hold off on changes to wsgiref, please note that it was based on:

1. my misunderstanding the policy for changes to externally-distributed 
modules (like wsgiref) and the nature of the purpose of having a designated 
maintainer for contributed stdlib modules,

2. at a time when I was working on incorporating documentation and code 
patches and suggestions from the Web-SIG in order to finish the Python 2.5 
version of wsgiref and release a matching external version for older 
Pythons, all with a tight deadline.  AND, I had just spent a few hours work 
that had to be redone when I discovered that changes (other than the 
automated whitespace normalization) had been taking place on the trunk.

Since I now understand the policy clearly, and am not attempting to 
integrate anything into either version of wsgiref, you are quite safe from 
any emails from me regarding your changes, with the possible exception of 
questions regarding changed functionality.

And even that isn't likely to happen for a while, since I don't foresee 
making any new external releases of wsgiref any time in the next few 
months, barring an emergency due to some horrible bug being discovered.