[Twisted-Python] Twisted Plugins - Implementation Discussion

[Tristan Seligmann]

On 7 Apr 2011 06:56, "Glyph Lefkowitz" <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
>>    - Each section blah blah terrible user interface stuff about
'sections' and other misfeatures of ini files.
>
>
> I don't want a solution that is hard-coded to deal with the metadata that
'twistd' specifically needs, as Twisted plugins are already used for more
than just twistd plugins, and I'd like them to be used for even more.  An
interface that limits the metadata to ConfigParser sections would make it
awkward to fit into a management GUI or web page.

I'd like to jump in with a +1000 here. I have literally written over 1000
plugins[1] using twisted.plugin, and not one of them was a twistd plugin. I
would very much like to take advantage of any improvements in this area in
my own projects.

[1]
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~dosage-dev/dosage/trunk/files/head:/dosage/plugins/
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