Re: [circle] circle new release: v0.40

[Thomas Mangin]

address@hidden wrote:

> > Rats! I was just figuring out what is necessary to fix W32 compatibility.
> >    
>
> That is great. 
> Since I am unable to test circle under windows, I 
> sometimes take steps that are not windows compatible.
>  

Diff like change to work under windows as AF_UNIX is ... well ... unix 
only !!

def do_command(command,print_error=1,print_result=1):
   try:
       com_sock_file = os.path.join(utility.config_dir, 'daemon_socket')
-       com_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
+      com_sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET,socket.SOCK_STREAM)
-       com_sock.connect(com_sock_file)

As well, I do not know why the proxy mode have been removed under windows !!
But as my machine is behind a Linux firewall, I will not be able to help 
much more.

> > I thought about using Twisted's IPC support but until/unless Thomas wants
> > to switch everything to twisted, it seems like a total waste. So that leaves
> > two other options: use the internet socket support via the loopback port (and
> > be darned sure that the remote end is actually LOCAL...otherwise, security is
> > left to the end user to properly firewall it) or else use the Windows
> > native named pipe service which requires installing additional extensions.
> >    
If the Thomas refered here is me, I will have to kindly decline the 
offer. I do not have the time needed to help you with it.

> > Since you can never ever trust W32 sockets stuff, I chose the last option.
> > Fortunately, ActiveState has already prepackaged the W32 stuff in their
> > version of Python.
> >    
I do not understand what you mean.

> I will not switch everything to twisted myself, because 
> I do not know it and I am too lazy to learn it, among 
> other reasons.
>  
;-)

Thomas