[Twisted-Python] Deferred on PyPI

Mikeal Rogers mikeal.rogers at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 21:40:41 EST 2009


On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:35 PM, <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

> On 09:10 pm, jml at mumak.net wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:29 AM,  <exarkun at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09:26 am, jml at mumak.net wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> A while ago at EuroPython, Mikeal Rogers and I talked about Deferreds
>>>> and how they don't really depend on the rest of Twisted. Later, Mikeal
>>>> made a branch that extracted Deferred out of the rest of Twisted, and
>>>> I contributed a patch to make it more correct.
>>>>
>>>> You can find the latest release at:
>>>>  http://pypi.python.org/pypi/deferred/0.2
>>>>
>>>> I've also made a project for it on Launchpad:
>>>>  https://launchpad.net/deferred
>>>>
>>>> So you can get the code with 'bzr branch lp:deferred'. Mikeal is
>>>> maintaining the official trunk branch on Github.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't heard anything about it on this list, so I thought I'd
>>>> mention to see what you all think and whether we should do anything
>>>> about it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think this is a good idea, except you didn't mention anything about
>>> the plan for keeping this separate codebase synchronized with Twisted
>>> development.  I hope the plan isn't to allow it to become out of date.
>>>
>>
>> Well, I don't know if there's a plan per se. I'm personally not
>> intending to maintain the code.
>>
>
> Hm.  Is Mikeal?  Is he on this list?


Just had to join in order to reply.

Anyone who wants to contribute is welcome to fork it and send me pull
requests on github. I don't keep up with current Twisted development so I
doubt I'll be in the loop enough to keep this up to date.

http://github.com/mikeal/deferred


>
>  However, if I were the maintainer, I think that I would like Twisted
>> to depend on this code, dropping its own Deferred implementation.
>
>
> It would be pretty neat to be able to do that.  I don't think it will
> happen unless someone is actively working towards it, though.
>
> Jean-Paul
>
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