[Twisted-Python] Evangelism notes...

Eugene Coetzee projects at reedflute.com
Fri May 6 17:18:37 EDT 2005


Jeff Grimmett wrote:

>  
> Yes, I find having the source code useful. Usually it's because the 
> documentation leaves a fine point unclear; examining the source may 
> resolve the confusion.

Perhaps we disagree radically about the usefulness of having the source 
code,being able to read it, and the ablility to recompile and rebuild 
the framework yourself.

> But the source code should not be a crutch to support incomplete 
> documentation - not if you want to go toe to toe with the big dogs.
>
I googled around with "networking framework" a few times in my life. Who 
are the "big dogs"  when it comes to  networking frameworks. In the past 
I wrote everything myself using raw C++ sockets,  MFC or vanilla 
java.net. I have also been bitten badly by the "big dogs" - having to 
dig through a MSDN "knowledge base" of thousands of "known bugs" before 
I finally discovered that it *could* be fixed with next release. I 
honestly cannot say that Twisted is outclassed in this area, at least I 
can fix the bugs myself.

Eugene Coetzee

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