[Zope3-dev] Asyncore (and Twisted)

Shane Hathaway shane@zope.com
Fri, 01 Nov 2002 10:28:40 -0500


Steve Alexander wrote:
>> I think that desire isn't important enough to hold up integration of
>> Zope 3 and Twisted, though.  We're talking about an optimization here,
>> but currently, Zope 3 is explicitly un-optimized.  We should move
>> forward without the optimization.
> 
> I'm concerned about integrating Twisted and Zope 3 if it means that I'd 
> need to know Twisted in addition to Zope 3 in order to do protocol work 
> on Zope 3.
> 
> Although, that concern is reduced if integrating Twisted with Zope 3 
> means removing code from Zope 3.

That would be the idea.  If Twisted's HTTP server lacks anything, we 
would probably enhance Twisted's HTTP server instead of extending it in 
Zope.

> Perhaps I would be less concerned if I understood how Twisted and Zope 3 
> would interact for different network protocols. Will writing a proposal 
> be part of moving forward with this?

Well, first there need to be human resources, and I can't commit to that 
now, so someone else needs to answer that.

Shane