[Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec

[Aaron Watters]

I second the move, recorded here:

  http://listtree.appspot.com/wsgi2/ICvaujouPxb2gfEhDS_aiw

-- Aaron Watters

--- On Thu, 11/26/09, James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net> wrote:

> From: James Y Knight <foom at fuhm.net>
> Subject: [Web-SIG] Move to bless Graham's WSGI 1.1 as official spec
> To: "Web SIG" <web-sig at python.org>
> Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 8:42 PM
> I move to bless mod_wsgi's definition
> of WSGI 1.1 [1] as the official definition of WSGI 1.1,
> which describes how to implement WSGI adapters for both
> Python 2.x and 3.x. It may not be perfect, but, it's been
> implemented twice, and seems ot have no fatal flaws (it
> doesn't do any lossy transforms, so any issues are
> irritations at worst). The basis for this definition is also
> described in the "WSGI 1.0 Ammendments" [2] page.
> 
> The definitions as they stand are clear enough to
> understand and implement, but not currently in spec-worthy
> language. (e.g. it says "should" and "may" in a colloquial
> fashion, but actually means MUST in some places and SHOULD
> in others, as defined by RFC 2119)
> 
> Thus, I'd like to suggest that Graham (if he's willing?)
> should reformat the "Definition"/"Ammendments" as an actual
> diff against the current PEP 333. Then, I will recommend
> adopting that document as an actual standard WSGI 1.1, to
> replace PEP 333. 
> 
> This discussion has gone on long enough, and it doesn't
> really matter as much to have the perfect API, as it does to
> have a standard.
> 
> James
> 
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/SupportForPython3X
> [2] http://www.wsgi.org/wsgi/Amendments_1.0
> 
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