On 2009.12.14 11:48:48 +0000, Phil Mayers wrote: > Jared Gisin wrote: > > Is there a good document that explains why zope.interface is necessary > > to the twisted project? > > A counter-question: Is there a good document that explains why people > care? It's just another dependency isn't it?
Sure. But Twisted has a very small number of dependencies (I think Python and Zope Interface are the only ones that are absolutely required) so it does increase the total effort to install Twisted on an OS without a good package manager by a noticable amount. Zope Interface is a good library, and I think the Twisted team made the right call when they decided to use it rather than continue to maintain their own interface library. It's not their fault that installing Python dependencies on some operating systems is still way harder than it should be. It would be great if general Python installation and packaging tools improved to the point where one could easily install Twisted and all its dependencies on any supported OS using PyPI, as easily as we can on Linux or BSD using the OS package manager, or as easily as we can install Perl packages from CPAN, or as easily as we can run Java stuff using Java Web Start, etc. Enough smart people care about this problem that I'm pretty sure it'll be solved over the next couple of years. Which is too far away to save me from having to write big nasty custom Windows and MacOS installers for my current game, but might mean that this is the last time I ever have to do it. -- David Ripton drip...@ripton.net _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
