Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > Rrom: > First look: inside Mozilla's Raindrop messaging platform > > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/10/first-look-inside-mozillas-raindrop-messaging-platform.ars > > "The backend components that are responsible for retrieving and > processing messages are coded in Python on top of the Twisted > networking framework." > > Ok, front end is html/Javascript, DB is erlang-based.... > > tjr
There are already developers grumbling about using Twisted. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Raindrop/BackEndRoadmap#untwist_me.3F I checked out the source myself and looked at the roadmaps and bug lists to see if there were any patches I could work on. But it doesn't look all that interesting unless you're into Javascript. Python is mainly used to fetch data. Scheduling the fetch is left up to the user/OS. Python is also used for some "extensions" which are basically document transformation scripts. The extensions are stored in the CouchDB and are eval'd asynchronously on each document in the CouchDB. A fairly expensive process to be sure. Anyway, it's still really early in development so I'm sure they could use some help. :) PS: Anyone wanna take a stab at their twisted pro/con list? Cheers -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
