David Janes wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Kevin Smith<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Greg Wilson<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's been a fair bit of discussion in the last couple of
> days on the Python SoC mailing list about how useful it would
> be to have an XMPP server in Python
Why would having one written in Python in particular be useful to you?
/K
1) because many of us work in Python environments and would like to
continue to do so
2) because Python kicks ass and thus there are many Python programmers
and thus once we get the framework in place is likely to be used and
extended
3) because this is a noticeable deficiency in Python's otherwise
excellent support of Internet protocols
My personal opinion is that Python lacks any unique features especially
required for XMPP server.
C/C++ has speed. Erlang has monstrous flexibility, reliability, native
threading support, and especially tailored for communications. Perl has
sophisticated string-processing features. Python has none of it. You
like Python (i like it too), but you can't translate everything to Python.
It is not for me to tell you for what exactly Python is good, but it is
not an XMPP Server.
You could have tried creating XMPP client framework on Python, but
Twisted done that already.
That's my IMHO.
