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Another way to look at it is as an adapter to a "new" WSGI interface specification. The fact that it's backwards compatibile allows it to be used with existing WSGI tools, but future WSGI Lite-compatible software could implement the Lite API directly.

That being said, I've only briefly looked over the WSGI Lite code and neither advocate nor criticize its direction.

I think it just adds the boilerplate back in there for you :)

...so then it's a framework?

Are you serious?

That means that WSGI Lite app can run with WSGI server, not vice versa. At least that's how I understood it.

wsgi apps can be wrapped so that they can be called by wsgi-lite middleware. see the lighten() decorator.