On Aug 21, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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Christian Theune wrote:
Florian Lindner wrote:
Am Sonntag, 20. August 2006 06:11 schrieb Christian Theune:
Hi,
you might try a look at the recently released zc.async which
allows you
to leverage twisted asynchronous handling together with persistent
objects (as far as I know right now, haven't looked at it
personally
yet).
First off, thanks to everyone for looking and talking about zc.async
already. I have not announced the new collection of zc.* releases
for a few remaining cleanup reasons (and because I'm mostly away from
the 'net till Wednesday). When I do, zc.async will be clarified as
alpha software--working, exciting, pretty-well-tested software, but
software that is still under significant development (a bit farther
than zc.relationship was when we released that, but similar in that
they both were released while still in-flight to stable).
I've overflown the readme and it looks rather complicated compared
with the Zope2 clock server which is pretty straightforward.
I'm sorry to hear it looks complicated--at least to use. A
significant design goal is to have this a lot easier to use and set
up than zasync was (not a difficult goal, sadly). In any case, once
I announce beta, I certainly would appreciate feedback on what could
be made easier to use. "[queue].put(callable)" is a common-case
spelling to get something done, so I'm hopeful that it will be easier
than perhaps it seemed. The docs will hopefully be significantly
improved by then as well.
That said, the clock server is undeniably simpler in architecture and
design. For a number of use cases, I imagine some folks will find it
a nicer solution to use. zc.async has a different set of primary use
cases, and arguably covers some hard cases that other solutions don't
contemplate.
Well, it's not exactly the same use case and it's more generic AFAIU.
...
*and* it requires that you run Twisted.
True. Mostly. ;-) You could run public-facing app servers on
ZServer, and worker servers connected with ZEO running Twisted. But
yeah, a worker currently needs to run Twisted.
That said, the new design can support a different worker/engine pair
implementation without replacing too much. An optional Medusa-based
worker/engine pair probably would be relatively easy, and would
verify and enforce the factoring I want for the design. It might
only support thread-based jobs, rather than reactor jobs. After
beta, when I'll request more feedback, if folks are actively
interested in a Medusa engine for zc.async, they can probably
convince me to write it if they convince me they are serious about
using it.
Anyway, thanks again for the press. ;-) I'll introduce/announce the
new stuff late this week. I wish I had time to do eggs/zc.buildout/
PyPI stuff by then, but that will hopefully come eventually.
Gary
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