On 2011-04-07, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote: > > 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? > > 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 think the way to avoid caching issues in general is to generate the > packaging metadata from the source earlier in advance (i.e. at > development time, and check it in with the source code, like you would > do with a Cython-generated C file or something), not to just mess > around with it in a text editor. > > I think that there is a benefit to sticking with a format that people > very much dislike editing. Having separately manually-edited metadata > introduces an opportunity for the metadata to diverge from the reality > of the code. Making this easy to edit manually means making it more > likely that people will think that they need to introduce some manual > tweaks. If it's a huge pain to actually generate the metadata without > running a tool that inspects the code, it's less likely that someone > will feel the need to get clever.
I was just thinking about this. It would be very easy to write a single twisted/plugins/rdf_plugins.py file that scans for non-python metadata defined plugins and creates them. That way twisted doesn't need to depend on an RDF lib, and this can be a 'third party' outside-of-twisted package that if you want to use, you just specify it as a dependancy along with the rest of the things that your project depends on. ... I like this idea for a variety of reasons. -- Regards, Stephen Thorne Development Engineer Netbox Blue _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
