I just got off the phone with Dave Winer, the designer of the Frontier scripting language. Dave is concerned that the open-source community's response to Microsoft's .NET and and Hailstorm proposals isn't active enough; he views Miguel de Icaza's MONO proposal as good thing but essentially playing catch-up with a Microsoft-defined standard. Dave suggests that the open-source community can turn up the heat on Microsoft by visibly supporting and promoting open RPC standards that compete with .NET, such as XML-RPC and SOAP 1.1. He thinks that the implementors of scripting languages like Perl and Python are in a particularly good position to make this happen, by making XML-RPC and/or SOAP 1.1 fully documented parts of their standard libraries. I agree with both parts of Dave's assessment, and am willing to put my own effort into making it happen by doing some of the integration work. Therefore the concrete proposal: we should make XML-RPC support in the Python standard library a goal for 2.2. I'd like to see votes and/or a BDFL pronouncement on this goal. I've copied Fredrik Lundh and Eric Kidd, the implementors of two XML-RPC implementations that might serve. Dave (who designed XML-RPC) likes them both. I hope they'll report on which, if either, they consider production-ready for integration with Python. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power. -- Aldous Huxley
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