[Twisted-Python] Re: mktap/twistd in a Windows service
Paul Moore
pf_moore at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Nov 7 18:43:41 EST 2007
Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>> However, I want to run this as a Windows service. Ideally, twistd
>> would have a --install-service flag or something, but it doesn't so I
>> went looking, and found postings covering tap2ntsvc which creates
>> services from tap files, but it seems to have been replaced by ntsvc,
>> which only handles .tac files :-(
>
> It would be very excellent if twistd had a --install-service flag.
> There is a relatively minimal level of interest in Windows-specific functionality
> among the currently active Twisted developers, though. This means that it
> isn't very likely that any of us will undertake to add this feature.
>
> That doesn't mean that we'll never implement it, nor that we wouldn't
> accept a patch which implements it from someone else who is more interested
> in it than we are. If someone provides the functionality, with unit
tests,
> then we'll gladly incorporate and maintain it. I'm not sure if you would be
> interested in doing this work or not; I'm directing this as much at you as
> at all of the other users of Twisted on Windows who I know are out there
> and mostly remain silently.
Thanks for the information. I would love to say that I would look at
this, but I really don't have the knowledge of Twisted, or the time to
do a decent job. I'll certainly add it to my to do list, but although I
love twisted in theory, in practice, I don't write enough of the type of
software it's good at, for me to more than dabble. My main use, as I
hinted at in my original mail, is to just use the prepackaged
functionality - for which you have my eternal gratitude. (As it happens,
the need I originally had for a DNS server has passed - I found an
easier workaround for the specific case I was interested in).
If anyone does want to work on this, I'd certainly be happy to help
where I can - I have a reasonable amount of Windows coding experience,
both in Python and otherwise.
Thanks once again for the detailed reply.
Paul.
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