Mailman 3 June 2002 - Twisted

[Twisted-Python] latest release & solaris
by Jon Dyte June 8, 2002

June 8, 2002

Hi just a couple of notes of about the latest release 1) the tarball (gz) for unix seems to have some funny permissions/symlinks/umask? in it. This barfed using solaris tar, with an error about not being able to create the file, so I downloaded the windows version and unzipped that instead, and chmod -R to something sensible. 2) the C extension module cBanana.c actually has some C++ style comments in it. I think this is fine for gcc, but solaris' cc compiler is less forgiving. I just edited … [View More]

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[Twisted-Python] APIs changes for TCP and UDP
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring June 5, 2002

June 5, 2002

1) Client TCP connects should be allowed to bind to a specific interface and port, e.g.: reactor.clientTCP('example.com', 80, p, bindAddress=('1.2.3.4', 999)) 2) UDP Ports's API should be formalized. Basically, the way UDP works from what I can see is that you create a Port, and for client connections you call the Port's createConnection(addr) method. Currently this returns a transport which is hooked up to a protocol, which is silly, it should return the protocol instance it … [View More]

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[Twisted-Python] FTPResource, again
by Benjamin Bruheim June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

Hey, Here are a draft for "Resources". This one follows Itamars suggestion (which I after some dispute with myself found necessary). The path-stuff is awful, so ignore it. A combination of the module posixpath (undocumented) and os.path is a good replacement. Otherwise, there's some random routines, and the Interfaces aren't specified. Any ideas what must in and what must go? Request.render is silly :) This is just a "proof of concept", but I fear I've done some fundemental errors. Especially … [View More]

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[Twisted-Python] irc bug report reminders (Twisted-0.18.0)
by Paul Boehm June 4, 2002

June 4, 2002

#1: File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/internet/app.py", line 430, in run reactor.listenUDP(port, factory, interface, maxPacketSize) File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/twisted/internet/default.py", line 120, in listenUDP return udp.Port(self, port, factory, interface, maxPacketSize) TypeError: __init__() takes at most 5 arguments (6 given) #2: 16:08 < typo_> hmm, is app.listenSSL currently "temporarily unimplemented" because of the reactor transition ? 16:… [View More]

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[Twisted-Python] ANN: Twisted 0.18.0
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring June 2, 2002

June 2, 2002

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, written in Python and licensed under the LGPL. For more information, visit: http://www.twistedmatrix.com or join the list at: http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python What's New since 0.17.4 ======================= 0.18.0 is a major release, cleaning up many of the main APIs in twisted.internet and moving us much closer to a 0.99.x series leading up to Twisted 1.0. - The networking core … [View More]of Twisted - twisted.internet - was totally refactored, cleaned up, documented and improved, using explicit interfaces. The API is now much improved, and mostly stable. The main change was to create an explicit reactor object, using which you can schedule events, connect or listen on TCP/UDP/SSL ports, run methods in a thread pool, and so on. The tools that come with Twisted have been extended to allow choosing the reactor at runtime. Currently supported are select(), poll(), GTK+, Qt, Win32 event API, and Java thread based reactors, with wxPython and Tkinter support integrating with whichever reactor is chosen. - Perspective Broker, Twisted's remote object protocol, now supports returning the equivalent of exceptions for failed remote method calls. Additionally, resource limiting was added to the implementation. - Applications can now be persisted to XML, using marmalade, a XML pickle equivalent. This allows you to edit low level application settings using a text editor. - Added a sample IRC bot - it listens on a channel and logs it to a file. - Improvements to twisted.mail - the SMTP server now has basic support for bouncing. - Improvements to t-im, Twisted's instant messaging client. - LDAP was moved out into a separate package: http://twistedmatrix.com/users/tv/ldaptor/ - Many bug fixes, feature enhancements and additional documentatiom. What is Twisted? ================ Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications. It includes a web server, a telnet server, a chat server, a news server, a generic client and server for remote object access, and APIs for creating new protocols and services. Twisted supports integration of the Tk, GTK+, Qt or wxPython event loop with its main event loop. The Win32 event loop is also supported, as is basic support for running servers on top of Jython. Twisted currently supports the following protocols, all implemented in pure python, most of them as both servers and clients: - NNTP - FTP - HTTP - SOCKSv4 - SMTP - IRC - telnet - POP3 - AOL's instant messaging TOC - OSCAR, used by AOL-IM as well as ICQ (client only) - DNS - finger - Echo, discard, chargen and friends - Twisted Perspective Broker For more information, visit http://www.twistedmatrix.com, or join the list at http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python [View Less]

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[Twisted-Python] Proposal: Make tax default, tap optional
by Itamar Shtull-Trauring June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

XML pickles have many benefits over taps, and the only issues they have is not support 1.5 and 2.2 new-style classes. I suggest we make them the default - a tap file is *much* less useful than a tax.

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[Twisted-Python] Regarding customer support...
by Jason Asbahr June 1, 2002

June 1, 2002

Given some of the chats I've had with Glyph regarding bug tracking, customer support, and project management in Twisted, here's a nice overview article that provides some concrete definitions and feature descriptions for each. Note the "Workflow Management" paragraph where the author claims that the above mentioned systems are instances of Workflow Management and a system built around workflow management abstractions could be 'trivially' used to develop the others. http://linas.org/… [View More]

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