From: James Y Knight <foom@fuhm.net> On Apr 5, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Stephen Waterbury wrote:

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Whoa. If true, that sure doesn't come out in the docs. The link that you reference here says:

"There are many ways in which your code will be called by various parts of the Twisted framework by the time you're done. The initial one we're going to focus on here is a plug-in for the mktap utility."

So although it's almost never useful, let's focus on a plug-in for the mktap utility. That's cute.

That intro sure is misleading! The rest of the document doesn't mention mktap or plug-ins at all and in fact does document the currently recommended best practices. Pretend that first paragraph didn't exist.

This discussion caused me a lot of confusion. I dug around in the archives and found a very _long_ thread ("In Defense of TAPs") making some points to the opposite. When did tap files go out of style? And what if I want to daemonize my application anyway? How would I do so without mktap? Thanks! mikah