[PATCH] Branch and pull-- now with remote

[David Allouche]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 09:24 -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> | On 29 May 2005, Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> |
> | I'm thinking of some kind of producer/consumer or blackboard model
> | where the main program adds URLs to a queue that it wants, and then
> | one or more HTTP threads pull them down and eventually mark them as
> | either complete or failed.
> 
> Yes.  I've done some thinking about this for Arch, and what I'd like is
> an interface where "get" produces file-like objects.  Each file-like
> object is will asynchonously download.  If there is not enough data to
> satisfy the read() request, we do select(), and buffer data for other
> get requests, until select() says there's data for the file we're
> actually interested in.  Lather, rinse, repeat.

That looks like it stems from the process handling discussion we had
about pybaz. I think that is hackish.

If the point is doing efficient asynchronous networking, which it
appears to be, why not do it properly, and use Twisted?

Because of the "no mandatory external dependency" goal?

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                                                            -- ddaa
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