Talk:Twisted (software)

initial comment
There can be a lot more work done on the article: the proceedings for the 9th and 10th International Python Conference contain conference proceedings (usually considered equivalent to peer-reviewed journals, since they are peer-reviewed), which can be used to cite-sources regarding much of the information here and bring it to full encyclopedic level. MosheZadka 18:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

What is Twisted?
I don't get a sense of what Twisted is from reading the intro, other than that it's a computer thingy (is it software? An API? A programming guideline?) that allows one to develop projects that makes use of quite a few Internet protocols. --ErikStewart 22:21, 14 June 2006 (UTC)


 * To my programmer's ears, "an event-driven networking framework written in Python" sounds pretty clear and accurate. What about it do you think needs more coverage?  --Piet Delport 01:19, 16 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I also think it reads fine, though I can see how the use of terminology would make it rather undescriptive to laypeople. I turned the technical terms into links.  I think some part of the WP style guide discourages such dense linking, but that part is stupid so it doesn't count. Somegeek 18:35, 5 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I think it would help to address the "so what?" i.e. why makes it different from other kinds of servers and what are people are doing with it. Why is this server software interesting? For example doesn't it support many long lived connections and does that make the two-way web more attainable? Isn't there a web chess program using it? What else are people doing with it?

--cheers 72.147.51.200 (talk) 12:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)H. Hall

Page name
The page is really about Twisted, the software project. The first clause of the first sentence talks about Twisted Matrix Labs. The rest of the article is about Twisted itself. The page should be named "Twisted", not "Twisted Matrix Laboratories". Perhaps the first sentence should be shuffled down somewhere, since it has nothing to do with the rest of the article.


 * True. I've renamed it to Twisted (software).  --Piet Delport 14:17, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Terminology
I'm hardly impartial, so I'm not going to edit this directly, but Deferreds are not the same as Futures. In particular, a future can generally be resolved synchronously; the whole point of a Deferred is that you must add callbacks, you can't suspend and wait for it to complete. You can turn a Deferred into a future by using a mechanism like inlineCallbacks or corotwine, but there's an important division.

Glyph.lefkowitz (talk) 12:54, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Applications using Twisted
I just accidentally edited this section anonymously (cleared my FF cache earlier today) to put in a link to FluidDB. I want to mention that I was the editor since I'm the originator of FluidDB.

Terry Jones (talk) 10:50, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Please correct this

 * "Any user of the deferred can now treat it is as a deferred returning a 32-bit number."

This is not correct English, and I can't understand what does it try to say. Doru001 (talk) 19:03, 7 October 2010 (UTC)

Untwisted
Untwisted, a fork of Twisted with extended functionality and a greater emphasis on code-elegance. Link? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.22.109.134 (talk) 19:24, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Untwisted is non-notable. The name was deliberately picked to try to aggravate and troll Twisted's maintainers and users. The author has been waging a spam war against Twisted's authors over the past few months, going so far as to spam Freenode with incoherent hate speech and generally causing a bad time for everybody. Just nuke the line. (Not logging in for historical reasons.) 50.137.139.85 (talk) 00:58, 13 October 2012 (UTC)