On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Ben Bangert <[email protected]> wrote: > zkpython (Python binding to C lib): > - Approx. 1500 lines of C (Not including the C lib itself, which is another ~ > 8000 lines of code) > - Anyone that knows and wants to read the C library *and* Python *and* the > Python C binding tricks can trouble-shoot and contribute. And maybe the > patches will actually be accepted and incorporated at some point... > - Only usable with CPython > - Worst case... Python segfaults > > I really don't know many (hardly any) Python developers that know C well > enough to debug it or dive into it. If their only Zookeeper experience is > marred by bugs in the 'black box' of C, they'll move on to something else. > Which saddens me cause I think Zookeeper is pretty awesome.
Wanted to update this cause I think this might have come off as harsh. I greatly appreciate the Python C binding work, without it I wouldn't have started using Zookeeper. I definitely think we can do better to make it more enjoyable to use Zookeeper from Python though. - Ben
