On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:49:46 -0500, Steve Holden <steve@holdenweb.com> wrote:
Cary Hull wrote:
Hey, I think some Twisted related sessions at PyCon would be great. Based on what's been discussed so far, I would like to humbly suggest the following (kind of breaking it down):
1) Simple line based chat server/client. 2) Same thing except using AMP. 3) twistd and plugins
These are things I would really like to get to, but I'm pretty sure half an hour isn't going to cover it. Maybe we should be thinking BOF instead, then we can take an evening over it under less stressful conditions (and, who knows, even drink a beer or two in the process).
Maybe I can get you to go a little bit further than that in restricting what you'd like to see covered. Off the top of my head, and only continuing until I get bored with making this point, here's what a "Twisted" session could cover: * event driven programming * Deferreds (making them; using them; debugging them; defgen; locks/semaphors) * core reactor APIs * scheduling * implementing existing (TCP; UDP; IP) protocols * designing new (TCP; UDP; IP) protocols * using existing protocols in twisted core * integrating a protocol implementation with cred * process control/interaction * implementing a realm * implementing credentials/checkers * writing services * writing plugins (twistd; lore; cred) * handy general-purpose python utilities * adding new kinds of event sources to the reactor * gui/pygame/etc integration * threading * using SQL databases * Perspective Broker * writing unit tests * using trial * extending trial Wandering outside of the core of Twisted: * serving web pages * running a chat server * extending the chat server * jabber (jabber; jabber; jabber; sasl; jabber) * marking up documentation * dns servers and clients * usenet servers and clients * ssh/sftp clients/servers * telnet clients/servers * asynchronous terminal interaction * terminal widget rendering * smtp client/server * imap4 client/server * pop3 client/server Are any of these the things you have in mind? Can I get you to pick a very small number of them (1 or 2 per hour at most, I suspect; some are smaller, others are quite large)? Or did you have something else in mind? Jean-Paul