[Twisted-Python] kqueue reactor / ticket #1918

Itamar Turner-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Fri Nov 4 12:54:31 EDT 2011


> This is awesome, BUT...
>
> ...would probably have to be distributed outside of Twisted proper (at
> least for the moment), as Twisted supports versions of Python < 2.6, where
> select.kqueue would not exist.
>
> (Maybe this is your plan, but I'm just pointing it out.)

We've said e.g. Windows only supports Python 2.5 or later even when
everything else supports Python 2.4. And we have inlineCallbacks which
only runs on Python 2.5 or later. Saying "kqueue reactor only works on
Python 2.6 and later" seems fine to me.

-Itamar




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