Python + twisted = Raindrop (in part)
J Kenneth King
james at agentultra.com
Wed Oct 28 09:47:54 EDT 2009
Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> writes:
> Rrom:
> First look: inside Mozilla's Raindrop messaging platform
>
> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/10/first-look-inside-mozillas-raindrop-messaging-platform.ars
>
> "The backend components that are responsible for retrieving and
> processing messages are coded in Python on top of the Twisted
> networking framework."
>
> Ok, front end is html/Javascript, DB is erlang-based....
>
> tjr
There are already developers grumbling about using Twisted.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Raindrop/BackEndRoadmap#untwist_me.3F
I checked out the source myself and looked at the roadmaps and bug lists
to see if there were any patches I could work on. But it doesn't look
all that interesting unless you're into Javascript.
Python is mainly used to fetch data. Scheduling the fetch is left up to
the user/OS. Python is also used for some "extensions" which are
basically document transformation scripts. The extensions are stored in
the CouchDB and are eval'd asynchronously on each document in the
CouchDB. A fairly expensive process to be sure.
Anyway, it's still really early in development so I'm sure they could
use some help. :)
PS: Anyone wanna take a stab at their twisted pro/con list?
Cheers
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