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[dist-obj] FW: Python to bake-in XML-RPC support

I don't know how others feel, but I think this is one of the most kickass
moves I've seen in a long, long time.  And I think more is coming.  It
really shows that innovation might just prevail . . . over companies like
Microsoft who demonstrate an increasing hunger for control over our lives.

Dave et al: keep fighting the good fight!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xml-dist-app-request@w3.org [mailto:xml-dist-app-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Dave Winer
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 7:19 PM
> To: FoRK@xent.com; xml-rpc@yahoogroups.com; xml-dist-app@w3.org
> Cc: radio-userland@yahoogroups.com; Frontier-Users
> Subject: Python to bake-in XML-RPC support
>
> I just got a note from Eric Raymond saying that the Python
> community [1] has decided to bake XML-RPC into its standard
> distribution. He said:
>
> "Fredrik Lundh's xmlrpclib was checked into the CVS tree for
> Python 2.2 this morning after about the fastest and most
> unanimous endorsement I have ever seen on python-dev.  I am
> writing the library documentation even as we speak."
>
> As often is the case Python leads the way. This is a major
> milestone for XML-RPC. It's also very important to emphasize
> [2] that any scripting environment can be competitive with
> Microsoft .NET simply by taking this step. There are already
> 37 implementations [3] of XML-RPC covering most programming
> and scripting environments and operating systems. I would
> also like to see SOAP 1.1 broadly supported in non-Microsoft
> environments. When support is built into an environment,
> developers can assume it's there, and will more likely use it
> in their applications.
>
> Now which environment will be next?
>
> (I'd love to see Sun take this step with Java.)
>
> Dave
>
> [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2001-July/015825.html
> [2] http://davenet.userland.com/2001/07/09/miguelDeIcaza
> [3] http://www.xmlrpc.com/directory/1568/implementations



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