On Jun 4, 2011, at 11:32 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
b) telling people to use Twisted or asyncore on the server side
if they are new to sockets is bad advice. People *first* have
to understand sockets, and *then* can use these libraries
and frameworks. Those libraries aren't made to be black boxes
that work even if you don't know how - you *have* to know how
they work inside, or else you can't productively use them.
It would be fine to have a separate networking howto guide that covers
libraries, frameworks, and high level APIs, but I agree with Martin that
the Socket HOWTO needs to cover sockets. That's what a person expects
to learn when they click on the Socket HOWTO link.
Raymond