[Twisted-Python] Re: Binary files in Twisted

Tsai Li Ming mailinglist at ltsai.com
Fri Aug 27 10:45:16 EDT 2004


James Y Knight wrote:

> On Aug 27, 2004, at 4:34 AM, Tsai Li Ming wrote:
> 
>> What are the following libraries that is build when I install Twisted?
>>
>> ./protocols/_c_urlarg.so
> 
> 
> Optional url parsing speedup code -- this has a memory leak in 1.3.0 and 
> previous, so you probably don't want to use it in those versions. 
> Removing will cause the slower python code to be used instead. (I don't 
> know how much this helps, it might be a premature optimization anyhow).
> 
>> ./runner/portmap.so
> 
> 
> Required to interface with the RPC portmap daemon to register new RPC 
> programs. But you more than likely don't want or need this functionality.
> 
>> ./spread/cBanana.so
> 
> 
> Also an optional C speedup module, this time for the banana protocol. 
> Looks like the code that uses this module is commented out.
> 
> So basically, you can remove all the binaries without worrying. :)
> 
> James

So I'm guessing I can just remove all the binaries and Twisted will work 
  as normal?

Thanks,
Liming





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