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 PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >integrated > with the Tk and GTK event loops. > > - Your protocol doesn't have to worry about the transport - Twisted supports SSL, >TCP and > unix domain sockets right now, without having to make any change to the protocols. > > 2) Twisted is designed to run multiple servers and protocols at the same time, and >these can > be changed at runtime. It already includes pure python support for HTTP, FTP, LDAP, >SMTP, > POP3, DNS, telnet, AIM TOC, and IRC, all integrated with the main event loop (all >have server > support except DNS and LDAP). Adding new protocols to Zope is not easy, at the >moment. > > 3) Twisted is being actively developed and extended. medusa less so. > > 4) Good integration with threads - while event based, twisted has a very nice model >for > dealing with threaded apps. > > 5) Twisted has Perspective Broker, an async.ready remote-object protocol that >supports > caching, object migration, and remote messaging, with integrated authentication and > authorization. And it ideologically meshes with the "object publisher" notion in >Zope. No, > really :) > > > Twisted already includes a high-level web framework, but Zope probably would not use >it, and > instead build its own on top of twisted's low-level http support. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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-announce > http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ) _______________________________________________ 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-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )
