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

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