The Twisted Weekly News ======================= 4th Issue. Monday, July 23, 2001 QOTW: <radix> scripts are just usually short programs that do a very specific thing <radix> that's why a lot of us people who use interpreted languages hate it when someone calls our language a "Scripting language" ;) <radix> (I mean, look at Twisted and call it a "script" with a straight face) Welcome to the 4th issue of the Twisted Weekly News! This issue sees a new format similar to Debian weekly news, where the editor just babbles on in paragraph format. Progress this week consists mainly of new Twisted releases -- there were three patch-level releases in a period of 3 days. Other than that, not much has been going on (which is why this TWN is so short). * Twisted 0.9.1: This release saw some important bugfixes to the distributed web server, and the IRC implementation was introduced. Benjamin Bruheim also contributed an 'edna' derivative. * Twisted 0.9.2: This one had some nifty feature improvements. Glyph completely remade gtknet from scratch, with a more robust design. It is now called inGTKernet. He also made logging nicer, and reintroduced the gtk faucet and updated reality for PB. The most interesting thing for this release, though, was probably twisted.python.rebuild, which raises the potential of how dynamic Twisted can be. Basically, it's an automatic reload() interface, but oh so much more. :-) * Twisted 0.9.3: This saw a few bug fixes, as well as a parallel of inGTKernet for Tk, called tkinternet. The AOL TOC protocol implementation was officially brought into Twisted, and the debian package information was brought up-to- date. Cool Thing of the Week: twisted.python.rebuild Glyph wrote twisted.python.rebuild this week, and it's a very cool module indeed. It really opens up some possibilities for making Twisted super-dynamic. Basically it's a wrapper around reload that you mixin with your classes, and it allows updating the old code on the fly when you make modifications. I've always found Twisted incredibly cool *because* of it's dynamic nature, and this will help make it even more dynamic. Thanks Glyph! Ok, that's it for this week. Thanks for reading! Chris Armstrong <carmstro@twistedmatrix.com> -- Chris Armstrong carmstro@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/~carmstro carmstro@dynup.net