Authentication in TG2
Chris McDonough just posted a pretty extensive writeup of something he and Florent hacked up recently. Basically he helped us to put together some helpers that turn the repoze.who project into very similar authentication/authorization system to what we had in Turbogears 1.0.
The cool thing about this is that we get to share the stuff that makes sense to share, and yet maintain a backwards compatable API. We started a project (authority) which did the same thing, all on our own, but it’s much better to be able to share. ;) The Authority project turned out to provide a lot of useful bits and pieces which have since found homes, and that process will likely continue.
I’ve said before that I’m very impressed with the work that the Repoze folks have been doing, but I think this is a particularly good example of how it’s possible to collaborate in interesting new ways on top of a shared set of interfaces.
There’s a lot more to be done to make python web development work better, and I’m excited because we continue to move towards a world where innovating in one area doesn’t require building a whole new stack.
I think there are big benefits for users of having a healthy and diverse ecosystem.