[Python-Dev] Re: python-dev Summary for 2003-01-16 through 2003-01-31

[Aaron Watters]

> `Re: GadflyDA in core? Or as add-on-product?`__
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> __ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/032295.html
> 
> The idea was proposed to add Gadfly_ to the stdlib.  Two issues came
> up about doing this.  One was that it would require having to deal
> with another license.  Aaron Watters (the original author of Gadfly)
> was emailed to ask if he would be willing to donate the code to the
> `Python Software Foundation`_, but he did not respond (at least to the
> list).

I have now.  The answer was "yes" and I'm very proud to have been asked!

> The other issue was the use of kjbuckets_.  Guido was -1 on letting it
> into the stdlib because he had "heard it's some of .the hairiest C
> code ever written".  

I've seen a lot of C code, so that is *really* a compliment! Thanks! :)

> But Richard Jones said that Anthony Baxter is
> working on removing the dependency on kjbuckets by rewriting the code
> using the Sets_ module introduced in Python 2.3.

I would strongly prefer that kjbuckets be maintained as the default
if present, but given that I stopped working on gadfly some years ago
I will leave that to the discretion of others.  I doubt Sets_ would be
faster.
   -- Aaron Watters