Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Phil Harris
Hmhm, that is cool, I'll take another look then :) - Original Message - From: "Itamar Shtull-Trauring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 5:39 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Tw

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Kapil Thangavelu
take a chill pill. i'm *just* asking for a clarification about gpl-compatiblity. i'm not asking for zope to be released under the gpl. why, because there are alot of quality gpl programs that i would like to legally use and integrate with zope. specifically in this case aolserver. just as bad a

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 03:28:32 -0700 kapil thangavelu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thanks for the license clarification. > > i didn't mean to suggest that its not a good idea to work on it. > > i was hoping that someone from zc would give some sort of status update to > paul's statements from

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Don Hopkins
People waste much more time arguing about the GPL license, than it would take for them to completely rewrite the entire Python and Zope code base from scratch under the GPL. So if you can't live with a non-GPL license, then instead of arguing about it, get yourself to work rewriting a new system f

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread kapil thangavelu
On Thursday 11 October 2001 03:30 am, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > kapil thangavelu wrote: > > twisted is GPL and zope is not gpl compatible and that does not appear to > > be changing despite some mention from zc about trying to achieve > > compatiblity. > > Twisted is LGPL, and it might be po

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Phil Harris wrote: > That said, I think JPE/PJE is the best way forward, but this problem needs > to be solved (if it hasn't already). Latest CVS README says: Multithreading == Multithreading issues are taken care of. There is still a known issues concerning process termination (non

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Phil Harris
to be solved (if it hasn't already). Phil - Original Message - From: "Tim Hoffman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 4:32 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Tim Hoffman
There is another approach however for getting Java and Zope together A few weeks back I was mucking around with the Python Java Extension (see Python 9 proceedings) and was able to interact with Java classes/instances directly from Zope by calling ExternalMethods. PJE basically allows the Java

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Kevin Dangoor
egards, > -- > Bjorn > > > -Original Message- > > From: Itamar Shtull-Trauring [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Posted At: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 18:11 > > Posted To: Zope Developer > > Conversation: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa > &g

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-11 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
kapil thangavelu wrote: > twisted is GPL and zope is not gpl compatible and that does not appear to be > changing despite some mention from zc about trying to achieve compatiblity. Twisted is LGPL, and it might be possible to license it under something that will work with ZPL. I don't think th

RE: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Bjorn Stabell
ilto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 18:11 > Posted To: Zope Developer > Conversation: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa > with Twisted > Subject: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted > > > Actually, this brin

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread kapil thangavelu
On Wednesday 10 October 2001 08:09 am, Michel Pelletier wrote: > > Just to throw out another idea, Amos has discussed with me in the past the > idea of replacing medusa with Apache 2.0. Compelling as many of Twisted's > features may be, Apache 2.0 as far as i can tell supports many of them as > w

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread kapil thangavelu
On Wednesday 10 October 2001 04:41 am, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > Tino Wildenhain wrote: > > this sounds good for me. One would have to see it > > in the wild. Would you be able to do a sample integration > > for testing? > > It's not that I actually have the time for it, nor do I have enough

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread kapil thangavelu
On Wednesday 10 October 2001 07:49 am, Michel Pelletier wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:12:24 +0200 > > Itamar Shtull-Trauring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Medusa is working *now*. This is of course the main reason why not to > > switch. I dunno how deeply integrated Zope is with ZServer. >

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Andy McKay
> > How about Tux? Would that even make sense? > > Nope, TUX is linux-only. I think the point is to make an easily changeable front end that allows ZServer to be easily replaced with server x. Be it Tux or IIS or YAWS (Yet Another Web Server). Cheers. -- Andy McKay.

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Michael R. Bernstein
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 10:47, Andreas Jung wrote: > > From: "Michael R. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 09:42, Andy McKay wrote: > > > > > > Absolutely it may be more work but being able to eventually plug in your > > > own > > > front end would be great, be it ZServer

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Andreas Jung
- Original Message - From: "Michael R. Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andy McKay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 13:47 Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted >

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Michael R. Bernstein
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 09:42, Andy McKay wrote: > > I think a general proposal for "Pluggable front-ends" would be better > > received. I know there has been talk about dropping ZServer in favor of > > Apache 2.0. What would be nice would be to have options. > > Absolutely it may be more work but

RE: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Brian Lloyd
> > Thing is that from what I see win32 is the most popular > platform for Zope > > Actually I think win32 is in the minority. A poll on ZopeZen (totally > unscientific) showed about 60% run on Linux. Our server logs always show win32 binary downloads as far and away the winner. That doesn't m

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Andy McKay
> I think a general proposal for "Pluggable front-ends" would be better > received. I know there has been talk about dropping ZServer in favor of > Apache 2.0. What would be nice would be to have options. Absolutely it may be more work but being able to eventually plug in your own front end would

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Casey Duncan
On Wednesday 10 October 2001 10:49 am, Michel Pelletier allegedly wrote: > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:12:24 +0200 > > Itamar Shtull-Trauring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1) Medusa is working *now*. This is of course the main reason why not to > > switch. I dunno how deeply integrated Zope is with Z

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Bill Anderson
On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 06:17, seb bacon wrote: > * Phil Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011010 15:25]: > > Thing is that from what I see win32 is the most popular platform for Zope > > (I'm including experimenters here though, not just production sites). > > Last time I looked at the zope.org download

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:05:06 +0200 Itamar Shtull-Trauring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) Plugging in a different transports instead of TCP (e.g. SSL) is much > easier in Twisted than medusa, as far as I can tell. In m2crypto's medusa > ssl code very protocol needs its own subclass in order supp

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:25:09 +0100 "Phil Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But kosh, we all know your hatred of all things Microsoft. > > You're absolutely right, it could be fixed, and probably should be as well. > > Thing is that from what I see win32 is the most popular platform for Zope

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Michel Pelletier
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:12:24 +0200 Itamar Shtull-Trauring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Medusa is working *now*. This is of course the main reason why not to > switch. I dunno how deeply integrated Zope is with ZServer. ZServer and the Zope application interface through a pretty clean bound

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Zopista
PROTECTED]> Cc: "Chris Withers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Itamar Shtull-Trauring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 4:25 AM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted > But kosh, we all kno

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Andreas Jung wrote: > The Medusa architecture is also more or less generic and extendable. 1) I've talked to at least one person who had trouble integrating an external protocol into Zope, and ended up running it as a seperate process and communicating over XML-RPC. 2) Plugging in a different

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Raymond Penners
seb bacon wrote: >>Thing is that from what I see win32 is the most popular platform for Zope >>(I'm including experimenters here though, not just production sites). >> > > Last time I looked at the zope.org download stats, it was about 2/3 > windows downloads... Keep in mind that Zope comes pr

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Andreas Jung
- Original Message - From: "Itamar Shtull-Trauring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 06:11 Subject: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted > Actually, this brings up this idea I had - Zope s

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Tino Wildenhain wrote: > this sounds good for me. One would have to see it > in the wild. Would you be able to do a sample integration > for testing? > It's not that I actually have the time for it, nor do I have enough knowledge of Zope's medusa integration. I was rather hoping someone from D

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread seb bacon
* Phil Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011010 15:25]: > Thing is that from what I see win32 is the most popular platform for Zope > (I'm including experimenters here though, not just production sites). Last time I looked at the zope.org download stats, it was about 2/3 windows downloads... seb

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread kosh
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Phil Harris wrote: > But kosh, we all know your hatred of all things Microsoft. > How did you ever guess? Hmm my prejudices must be showing through again. ;) > You're absolutely right, it could be fixed, and probably should be as well. > My guess is that it will be also. I

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any ideas what the performance would be compared to medusa? Nope. However, it is pretty fast, and Zope is slow anyway, since it's so dynamic. >>4) Good integration with threads - while event based, twisted has a very >>nice model for dealing with threaded apps. >> >

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Phil Harris
Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted > On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Phil Harris wrote: > > > I'd say the fact that it doesn't work on Win32 is a bit of a downer. > > > Just a bit but overall I expect t

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Phil Harris
Not for me, get all sorts of socket errors - Original Message - From: "Itamar Shtull-Trauring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted > Phil

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Phil Harris
but, I'm just about to try 0.11, so my opinion may change. - Original Message - From: "Itamar Shtull-Trauring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 12:24 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa w

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread kosh
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Phil Harris wrote: > I'd say the fact that it doesn't work on Win32 is a bit of a downer. > Just a bit but overall I expect that could be changed if it where really important. From what I have seen under high load and python program will kill windows after a few days with som

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Phil Harris wrote: > I'd say the fact that it doesn't work on Win32 is a bit of a downer. Last I checked twisted ran fine on win32. ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Phil Harris
, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted > Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > > > > Actually, this brings up this idea I had - Zope should replace medusa with > > Twisted. > > Well, you're advocating this, so it's fair to pa

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Hi Itamar, this sounds good for me. One would have to see it in the wild. Would you be able to do a sample integration for testing? At the same time unmeshing the publishing process sounds sexy to me... Regards Tino --On Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2001 12:11 +0200 Itamar Shtull-Trauring <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Chris Withers wrote: > Well, you're advocating this, so it's fair to paint a rosy picture. And I'm a Twisted developer, so I'm even more biased :) Though the overall design was not done by me, and was what convinced me to use it in the first place. > Can anyone see what the downsides would be

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread kosh
Designing the webpages of tomorrow http://webme-eng.com Designing the MMORPGS of tomorrow http://worldforge.org On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > Actually, this brings up this idea I had - Zope should replace medusa with > Twisted. Why, you ask? > Any ideas what the performa

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Oops, forgot the URL: http://www.twistedmatrix.com/ ___ Zope-Dev maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-ann

Re: [Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Chris Withers
Itamar Shtull-Trauring wrote: > > Actually, this brings up this idea I had - Zope should replace medusa with > Twisted. Well, you're advocating this, so it's fair to paint a rosy picture. Can anyone see what the downsides would be? In any case, it does look cool. Perhaps a fishbowl proposal wou

[Zope-dev] A modest proposal: Replace medusa with Twisted

2001-10-10 Thread Itamar Shtull-Trauring
Actually, this brings up this idea I had - Zope should replace medusa with Twisted. Why, you ask? 1) Twisted separates transport from protocols, and the event loop it uses is extendable and generic. That means: - It can run on Jython (using threads, someday with java.nio), and it can be