Very cool, nice walk though. Kudos to Brian for a great post. Posts like Brian's definitely lower the barrier to entry. I enjoy cut/paste type intros so you can tinker with something quickly and painlessly.
I've been tinkering with similar with Python's twisted library. I figured I'd do a similar intro for a chat client using the python twisted library. 1) Install twisted (apt-get/yum install python-twisted) or very similar 2) mkdir chat_server 3) go to http://www.koders.com/python/fidD65298C63F7F8C0BFA09681B5981427544C470A9.aspx?s=wxpython And click download [1] 4) twistd -y chatserver.py 5) in two windows type telnet localhost 1025 6) binary package = 1MB or so (vs 44MB for ActiveMQ) 7) python chat server = 12MB resident (vs 200MB for ActiveMQ) The differences I noted: * 37 lines instead of 100 ish * No nickname prefixes * No editing of files or setting environment variables. * Twisted is a library (to enable clients or servers) not a network service/daemon (like ActiveMQ). For a more complete example I tinkered with ampchat: 1) apt-get install python-twisted 2) hg clone http://ripton.net/hg/ampchat 3) cd ampchat 4) python chatserver.py 5) in new window: python chatserver.py file -> connect login: a password: a 6) in new window: python chatserver.py file -> connect login: b password: b The differences I noted: * 580 lines instead of 100 ish * client <-> server architecture * GUI * Usernames and passwords * Shows who is connected. * No editing of files or setting environment variables. * can send messages to everyone or any subset of users. Has anyone here written anything non-trivial in twisted? ActiveMQ? For the curious my interest in this is wanting to implement a simple put/get encrypted protocol for binary blobs for a p2p backup system I'm writing. [1] Authoritative site http://twistedsphinx.funsize.net/projects/core/examples/index.html has a broken link for chatserver.py. Also available in the twisted source available at twistmatrix.com site. _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
