[racket-dev] Removing Xexpr preference from Web Server

YC wrote at 12/04/2010 04:19 AM:
> After reading through the README, my vote is for a new "web-server2" 
> collection and keep web-server frozen as is except to fix bugs.

I'm still wondering how many people are actually dependent on Web Server 
right now.  I think that this number might grow exponentially, but might 
be only a handful of people right now.

FWIW, my priorities regarding Web Server backward-compatibility, most 
important to least important:

(1) Keep moving Web Server development forward.

(2) Keep/make *new* Web Server development a good experience, including 
giving good demo.  ("web-server" is a little preferred to "web-server2".)

(3) Have an idea for how to do backward-compatibility in the future.  
Maybe this involves PLaneT-like specs of which version of the API is 
used (which, incidentally, would be useful for "#lang racket/base" as well).

(4) Handle migration somehow for people currently using Web Server.  
This should not require major changes, but might require them to change 
their source to point to a compatibility library/language.  The others 
are higher priority.

Again, most of my Web work is on architectures predating the Racket Web 
Server, and I've only done a couple small apps using Web Server 
(research data-browsing/labeling apps), so I'm mostly unaffected.

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