Jack Moffitt pisze: 
When you start your application:

    from twisted.python import log
    log.startLogging(sys.stdout)
    

Now I've just deluged the poor user with lots of factory start and
stops.  All I want is normal HTTP style logs.  Twisted's logging
infrastructure has its place, but it is not quite ready to produce
user friendly output for a simple utility.

twistd(1) starts logging automatically, giving you a command line option to redirect the logs to a file.

Or, even better, create an Application object and use twistd(1) to start
your service. Using twistd(1), you have a choice to daemonize your process
or not.
    

Great, now the user has to edit a tac file just to configure the
thing.

tac files are standard Python files. twistd(1) is also a standard way to deploy Twisted applications. If you want the user just to run a file with Python, you will copy a lot of things that twistd(1) already does.

  I'd rather them be able to type "tape" and not have to worry
about twistd -ny some.tac.

$ echo "twistd -ny tape.tac" > tape; chmod +x ./tape; export PATH=.:$PATH

I use tac files a lot, but they don't make
much sense for simple utilities.

Of course. That's why twistd(1) lets you start things right off the command line.

* The only way to stick something in the tree at an arbitrary location
seems to be to walk the tree to that spot, creating dummy locations as
you go.

Override locateChild
    

What is that?   I see no such function:
Not in IResource:
http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.web.resource.IResource.html

Ahh. You're using twisted.web . I thought you're using Nevow. Nevow's rend.Page
http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/nevowapi/nevow.rend.Page.html

* Related to the above, the handling of foo vs. foo/ is pretty
confusing.  foo/ is considered the '' child of foo.  This is pretty
yuck to me.  Unfortunately, I don't have any creative suggestions
about how to do it better right now.

addSlash = True
    

This does not exist in Resource or in server.Site.  What am I missing?
 It's not mentioned in the docs either.

See above.

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