On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:03 AM, Reza Lotun <rlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> Have you continued, or do you plan to continue development where it was left >> off? > > Well, it's something I've only be toying with. I can handle all the > specific Twisted fixes I'd like to make: > - handling lost connections gracefully > - proper use of twistd and daemonization > - massive code cleanups
I would very much support you continuing development on Orbited. In fact, I believe I can help, or already have patches for most of the above issues you mention. A lot of this is result of my "Hotdot" project, "Create realtime webapps using Django + Orbited + Twisted": http://github.com/clemesha/hotdot Specifically, see here for Orbited and twistd working together: http://github.com/clemesha/hotdot/blob/master/server.py and see the below for patches that improve handling lost connections gracefully: http://gist.github.com/256582 Finally, it would be awesome if you put up your improvements on Github (just a suggestion :-), then I can easily fork and starting adding improvements, and you can pull and we can move this forward. -Alex p.s. I haven't found many issues with the frontend JavaScript code, but if you have specific issues that you could point out, I'd love to try to help. > > The only problem is that I'm not that knowledgeable about the > Javascript browser hacks they've employed - their Orbited.js is more > than half "magic" to me (probably due to me not having an opportunity > to work on a large js project). It's something that I'd like to get > into, if someone is willing to take the lead on the javascript side. > It could potentially be as simple as slotting in js.io > (http://github.com/mcarter/js.io), which Orbited.js has apparently > become, and which appears to have been the plan for Orbited 0.8. > >> They all seem to have gone off to play with node.js instead. > > I don't *really* blame them, considering most of the project's merit > lay in the Javascript realm, and node.js is basically a (less > featurful) version of Twisted for Javascript (of course with the added > bonus of using a heavily JITed and optimized Javascript VM). > >> Very cool, I hadn't seen that before. > > Yes, very neat. Haven't done much with it, but I think it's a real > winner when you're doing something simple like long-polling/ > broadcasting from a queue. > > Cheers, > Reza > > -- > Reza Lotun > mobile: +44 (0)7521 310 763 > email: rlo...@gmail.com > work: r...@tweetdeck.com > twitter: @rlotun > > _______________________________________________ > Twisted-Python mailing list > Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com > http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python > -- Alex Clemesha clemesha.org _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
