Hello, I took over a maintenance of (surprisingly) still quite popular M2Crypto project in the last year. I have just released 0.25.0 which is my fifth release during that time and I think we are slowly but surely moving towards porting to py3k, cleaning up the code, etc.
I am now working on porting to py3k, but the biggest PITA for me (aside from the Windows Pain™ ;)) is the Twisted integration module (https://gitlab.com/m2crypto/m2crypto/blob/python3/M2Crypto/SSL/TwistedProtocolWrapper.py). 1) I get bugs like https://gitlab.com/m2crypto/m2crypto/issues/111 which I have no idea how to solve, because I don't understand the deep magic which Twisted seems to me, and I am not even sure that M2Crypto is in fault here (not mentioning that I have a hard time to reproduce). 2) Even more pressing is that the Twisted module breaks my tests when porting to py3k (https://travis-ci.org/mcepl/M2Crypto/jobs/146633964). Given the opaque and complicated data types in Twisted, I see horribly complicated task of diving into it in front of me and I am not eager. 3) Moreover, I would like to know how much interest there is in maintaining the M2Crypto module for Twisted. I got some hope from http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/TransportLayerSecurity which seems like there is an interest in more complete OpenSSL bindings, but OTOH I see on the list that Twisted now seems to use more and more of Cryptography (why in the world somebody made such confusing name of their project ...). Obviously the most simple way for me to be cutting Twisted module from M2Crypto and let it be (although I am afraid I have still some legacy users who would like to see it maintained, and given that the legacy support is still the most important reason for maintaining M2Crypto, I don't want to give up lightly). Moreover, I am suspicious that for somebody who actually understands Twisted, most of my problems are trivial and they could be solved easily. So, before I start studying http://krondo.com/slow-poetry-and-the-apocalypse/ (is there some better tutorial from ground up for complete idiots?), I would like to solicit help here for help with this module. Would somebody raise up their hand to help me and help Twisted? Best, Matěj -- https://matej.ceplovi.cz/blog/, Jabber: mc...@ceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 3C76 A027 CA45 AD70 98B5 BC1D 7920 5802 880B C9D8 Give a man a regular expression and he’ll match a string… teach him to make his own regular expressions and you’ve got a man with problems. -- yakugo in http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247#comment-3022
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