Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > > > I watched and was greatly impressed by the video demo of Google's new > > Wave collaborative communication system. I believe it would/will help > > with some of the chronic problems we (and others) have. > > I watched that too. It appears to be heavily reliant on *very* fast > internet access for participants in a wave. That's far from universal in > the Python community, let alone the internet at large.
And on HTML 5. Those of us using IE might be hosed, but perhaps Python developers all use Firefox? (I use Camino.) > It also appears to be heavily reliant on the wave's existence at a > single point of failure (the hosting server): if that one point becomes > unreliable, all participants are hosed. Well, they've got this server synchronization protocol. Might mitigate both problems. I'm thinking about building a Python Wave server to run in UpLib, if I can find the time. Bill _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
