[Twisted-Python] Re: Teach Me Twisted Redux
Phil Mayers
p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk
Fri Mar 21 07:47:22 EDT 2008
>> One of the biggest (glaring?) issues with Twisted is the abysmal state
>> of the documentation (none) making the code the best source... and
>> history is replete with the massive successes that approach has borne...
>
> I disagree with this evaluation. ...
Likewise.
> Asynchronous networking is simply hard. And Twisted has a very
> sophisticated take on it. Saying the problem is the documentation is
> like someone saying "quantum mechanics is poorly documented...all that
> talk about Hilbert spaces, eigenstates and superposition..." It is
> not poorly documented, it is simply hard and conceptually challenging.
>
> Also, I think the proof is in the pudding. Most people who really
> need Twisted for their projects _are_ in fact able to learn it (for
> the most part without reading the source code). The documentation
> can't be that bad. Doesn't mean there is not room for improvement
> though.
I totally agree with that. I'm a reasonably bright chap, but I'm not
Einstein. I get Twisted, and I got it quickly enough and well enough to
(I think) do some pretty damn sophisticated things.
(I did have the benefit of having already tried a threaded approach and
seen how disastrous it was...)
>
>
> Brian
>
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