[Twisted-Python] Moving iocpsupport to an external package? Implications on Windows?

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Wednesday, February 10, 2021, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:

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> On Feb 10, 2021, at 12:40 AM, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org>
> wrote:
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> How will this patch change for people installing Twisted on Windows?
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> Twisted is still used by a lot of users on Windows, and the IOCP Reactor is
> still used on this platform.
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> This line is what does the trick:
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> https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/1446/files#diff-
> fa602a8a75dc9dcc92261bac5f533c2a85e34fcceaff63b3a3a81d9acde2fc52R34
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> Basically, on Windows, you'll automatically get the `twisted-iocpsupport`
> module as a hard dependency.  On other platforms, you won't.  Unless you're
> using a *truly* ancient `pip` (which is less likely on Windows, where
> people tend to install things themselves rather than getting them from a
> calcified platfom) this will just work ✨ magically
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>
 Ok, thanks for the clarification.  That is worth calling out in the
release announcement, since that is a major change for Windows users.

Is the https://github.com/twisted/twisted-iocpsupport repository subject to
the same rules as the Twisted core repository such as:
- must have a Trac ticket
- PR can only be merged after review approval from a reviewer with write
access to the https://github.com/twisted/twisted-iocpsupport repository.
etc.?

--
Craig
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