[Twisted-Python] ClientFactory design

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 6:48 AM Peter Westlake <peter.westlake at pobox.com>
wrote:

> I'm studying an SSH client implementation using Conch, and was surprised
> to see that the ClientFactory subclass had a connect() method which calls
> connectTCP. This isn't really a problem - the code works - but it seems
> like an odd place to do the connection. Am I right to be surprised?
>

Putting transport setup on the factory unnecessarily couples protocol and
transport logic.  More flexibility is provided by keeping these concerns
independent.


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