[Twisted-web] Packaging nevow standalone

Donovan Preston twisted-web@twistedmatrix.com
Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:48:26 -0500


On Dec 17, 2003, at 2:36 PM, Ricardo Niederberger Cabral wrote:

> It would be nice to have a Requirements note for nevow somewhere on
> http://stewstuff.com/doc/nevow.xhtml or perhaps a README on the CVS
> nevow dir, so newbies can check it out more easily.

I have been planning on packaging a standalone distro of nevow. Radix 
has kindly offered to help in this effort, as I know nothing about 
distutils or any of the issues related to actually producing usable 
tarballs of python software. I'd like to do this sometime within the 
next few weeks.

One of the things I have been thinking about doing before doing a 
standalone distribution is removing the dependency on twisted. I have 
been contemplating using PyProtocols for the adaption machinery, and 
writing a simple CGI renderer to replace the ones that are twisted-web 
aware. However, while I want to pursue this goal eventually to ensure 
that nevow has as few dependency abstraction violations as possible, it 
probably won't happen right away, so I probably shouldn't do it for the 
first standalone release.

Radix, what are your thoughts about timing?

dp