Ugh. This thread is a mess. Can you guys quit the bullshit? On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Jack Moffitt <jack@chesspark.com> wrote:
You can pass arbitrary command line options by writing a plugin. http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/core/documentation/howto/tap.html
Which, as I recall, Glyph and others have discourged others from doing this. Perhaps I am mistaken, but if twistd is intended for this purpose, why has this not become part of it all along?
I don't think anyone's discouraging twistd plugins. They're nice for what they do. You may be thinking of mktap plugins. mktap is deprecated. I don't understand the grammar in "why has this not become part of it all along". Are you suggesting use of a time machine? I would love to, if you made one available to me.
This is disregarding the whole fact that none of already existing twistd options are at all revelevant to my users, and only serve to provide more noise.
If this is a command line non-daemon application, then you're right. twistd is not really geared towards those. There are some vague ideas for helping people write tools like that in a way that makes sense, but nothing very concrete. As for your initial list of things, I encourage you to file them as bugs (making sure you search for existing bugs first). They look pretty reasonable. Some of them are probably just documentation bugs. -- Christopher Armstrong http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/ http://planet-if.com/ http://canonical.com/