[Twisted-Python] [ANN] Foolscap-0.2.6 released
Nathan
nathan.stocks at gmail.com
Wed May 7 11:24:56 MDT 2008
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Brian Warner <warner at lothar.com> wrote:
> > What's the current stability of foolscap? Is it deemed stable enough
> > for production, or is it more beta, alpha, etc.?
>
> That's an.. emotional question :-), because I've got two hats on.
>
> The foolscap developer hat -wearing Brian wants the freedom to improve the
> wire protocol, which probably means breaking compatibility. There are some
> versioning hooks in place to make it possible to do this less-breakingly, but
> it's a hassle, and if this Brian had his druthers he'd be changing and
> breaking things left and right to make them better. This Brian would like to
> tell you that it's still alpha.
>
> But the Tahoe/AllMyData developer hat -wearing Brian (you know, the one who
> gets a paycheck) is deploying a commercial system with thousands of users who
> all use Foolscap-0.2.5 to connect to our servers. This provides a strong
> incentive to maintain compatibility :). This Brian is forced to admit that
> it's at least beta, and the fact that his company is using it in a production
> system suggests that there's at least one group of developers who deems it
> stable enough for production.
>
> So Foolscap is likely to maintain wire compatibility for the near future, and
> if I really need to add protocol features, I'm pretty sure that I'll go
> through the extra work of doing it in a non-breaking way. Take from that what
> you will :-).
Great answer! For my purposes, I'll consider that as "stable but
still under heavy development" ... and wait until it makes it into
Twisted proper. I avoid extra external dependencies whenever I can.
~ Nathan
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