[Twisted-Python] Twisted Plugins - Implementation Discussion

exarkun at twistedmatrix.com exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Thu Apr 7 21:13:12 EDT 2011


On 12:09 am, glyph at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
>On Apr 7, 2011, at 7:54 PM, Stephen Thorne wrote:
>>On 2011-04-07, Stefano Debenedetti wrote:
>>>On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:08 AM, Tim Allen wrote:
>>>>If you need a non-Turing-complete config language and rule out .ini 
>>>>and
>>>>XML, I'm not sure what's left. JSON, perhaps.
>>>
>>>I bet a lot of people have a deja-vu feeling about a config file
>>>syntax debate so I'll propose an alternative approach: RDF.
>>
>>I am +1 on this idea. I like rdf. My question is now: is there an rdf
>>parser lib that is available on python2.4+ which can either be gently
>>embedded within twisted, or used as a dependency?
>>
>>We don't really need SparQL or anything complicated, just the ability
>>to resolve some simple triples.
>>
>>I do not like angle brackets, but I have always had a fond affection 
>>for
>>n3.
>
>You're welcome to try and do this; I'm not particularly interested in 
>blocking it or holding it up, but I don't think that changing the input 
>format actually solves any real problems.  I guess I will hold it up if 
>you can't convince me that I'm wrong about that, and demonstrate an 
>actual problem that it solves :-).  You still have to define all the 
>same classes in order to get a plugin, unless we change some of that 
>too - which has nothing to do with the metadata format at all.

I agree.  I don't see how this addresses any of the problems with the 
current system which have been raised so far.

Jean-Paul



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