Tom Fillmore <tfillmor@socalbahai.org> writes:
Can anyone shoot me their (fact-based) opinion as to why Twisted is more appropriate than Webware? I'm not trolling here, I've just never used Webware.
This is not fact-based, but "fact-based opinion" sounds oxymoronic to me ;) Anyway, I found twisted to be much more intuitive and "pythonic" (yes! vagueness!) than Webware. I first started a project with webware and rather liked it initially, but became increasingly frustrated with Webware forcing me to write my code in a certain way (specifically forcing certain class-tree layouts and disallowing multiple-inheritance in templates) so I started looking for another toolkit and settled with Twisted (which allows a lot more freedom, inheritance-wise, due to the use of interfaces/components). Webware also, IIRC, forces directory-layouts on you, too, which is just a Bad Idea, IMO (I was trying to map URIs in some arbitrary fashion and found it quite painful). This was a while ago, though: perhaps some of these things are no longer true. Of course, any toolkit is going to do a certain amount of "forcing", but, FWIW, I prefer Twisted (perhaps I just prefer the way it forces me). Also, Twisted appears to have support for many more protocols, etc., so if you are looking at integrating some web app with other things eventually (as I am), then it seems to make even more sense. HTH, -- mike [at] mike [dash] warren [dot] com <URL:http://www.mike-warren.com> gpg --keyserver 80.71.227.37 --recv-key 579911BD 87F2 4D98 BDB0 0E90 EE2A 0CF9 1087 0884 5799 11BD