CherryPy 3

[Chris Miles]

I've been following the TG2 threads with much interest and I'm all
for it.

One point I feel that needs clarification is whether any version of
TurboGears is going to support CherryPy 3.

From what I've been reading I assume the answer is now "no", but I'd
like this to be made clear.

I know that 1.1 was going to support it but too many
incompatibilities have made it not worth the effort compared to the
gains from developing TG2.

Would someone mind enumerating the difficulties with upgrading TG1.x
to support CherryPy 3 ?

If there's any community say in the matter, I'd like to throw a +1
into trying to support CP 3, if it is possible (and enough people
were willing to help work on it, without significantly effecting TG2
development, which I assume will be the major focus of the core
developers). In my business we develop and support web applications
built on a combination of CP2, CP3 and TG, and would like to simplify
our support efforts by moving all apps to CP 3 only, if we can.

Cheers,
Chris Miles

[Mark Ramm]

Well, I'd definitlely support people who want to work on CP3
integration in the TG 1 line. But you're right I don't have a need
for it personally, and probably won't be working on it given the need
for development effort on TG2, which I believe will bring greater
rewards to the platform.

The main issues with TG 3 integration are updating the TG
configuration system which was very closely coupled to CP 2.x
behavior, and updating the test helpers in TG which depended on a CP 2
interface which is gone in CP3, and which were implemented by
monkeypatching parts of CherrryPy.

If you or others want to work on those issues, we still have the work
we'd done so far in a branch in SVN, and I'm sure we'd support your
efforts to get that branch working with CP3.

And I'm sure the core folks will help as much as we can given our
other TG commitments.

--Mark

> Would someone mind enumerating the difficulties with upgrading TG1.x
> to support CherryPy 3 ?
>
> If there's any community say in the matter, I'd like to throw a +1
> into trying to support CP 3, if it is possible (and enough people
> were willing to help work on it, without significantly effecting TG2
> development, which I assume will be the major focus of the core
> developers). In my business we develop and support web applications
> built on a combination of CP2, CP3 and TG, and would like to simplify
> our support efforts by moving all apps to CP 3 only, if we can.
>
> Cheers,
> Chris Miles
>
>
> >
>

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Mark Ramm-Christensen
email: mark at compoundthinking dot com
blog: www.compoundthinking.com/blog