[pyninja]

Pump aims to replace WSGI entirely. That is, I believe it does a better job of what WSGI was intended to do.

I understand your point that web developers don't necessarily work with WSGI on a day-to-day basis. But if you look at the Ruby web community, Rack middlewares are much more prevalent than WSGI middlewares. Application developers (as opposed to framework developers) often add functionality as a Rack middleware, so that it can be reused in different applications, even using different frameworks. Why isn't that happening with Python as much? In the Python world, instead of writing even simple middlewares to for basic functionality like https://github.com/adeel/pump/blob/master/pump/middleware/pa... or https://github.com/adeel/pump/blob/master/pump/middleware/co..., every framework ends up reimplementing it. I believe this is because the WSGI API is ugly and not as easy to understand as it could be (just look at the average WSGI middleware).

[moreyes]

It seems that what you ended up doing is, in fact, reimplementing things that were implemented zillions of times before. Am I wrong or the Pump middleware doesn't work for any WSGI app? If it had followed the WSGI middleware basic concept, you'd be closer to achieve the goal of reusable components across frameworks.

"Pump aims to replace WSGI entirely." <- this is very ambitious. :)