[Twisted-web] Unwinding the Twisted Web (a progress report)

[James Y Knight]

On Apr 22, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Christopher Armstrong wrote:
> I think we should just put all backwards-compatibility code into 
> twisted.web. So twisted.web will be API-compatible, and all of our BC 
> code will live in Twisted. It will still require tmlabs.web (or 
> whatever), and just wrap its APIs.

Lofty goal -- but I'm not sure it's actually possible. See current 
state of Nevow compatibility. It's somewhat backwards compatible, and 
works for "normal" resources, but has certain things that don't quite 
work together due to new resource API. Do you think that's fixable? I 
have not spent a great amount of time looking for a solution so there 
may be one but I didn't see an easy fix.

Or do you mean backwards compatible in that you could the old API, but 
it won't necessarily work if you use it with the new API in the same 
app? Perhaps just that twisted.web.* has been reimplemented such that 
its internals are now written in terms of tmlabs.web but it's otherwise 
a separate world? If so, I'm not sure that's actually worth much.

James