[Buildbot-devel] the aftermath (was Re: SF bay area get-together?)

[Marcus Lindblom]

Axel Hecht wrote:
> Here's my take, randomly tacked anywhere in the thread here:
> 
> I looked at separating the django orm stuff from the rest, and found
> that hard. I might not have looked hard enough, but it's defnitely not
> something where you end up with "oh, just install django-orm and you
> won't have your master cluttered with all that django web stuff".

I haven't tried that either (and I realise that some might've meant that 
earlier) however I still believe you don't have to use everything, even 
though you have to install it.

> One thing that I found really hard to think about was trying to port
> the feature of incremental log display into a remote web front end. I
> figured one could have a specific back-door for this in the master,
> but I have no idea how to get the callback oriented data delivery
> ported over into something like django, which assumes to get the data
> all at once.
> 
> Ideas?

A wild one: Doesn't HttpResponse take a File-like object? If you could 
solve the streaming of data from slave to master, returning it as it's 
being spoon-fed might be possible.

But yeah, I think you need a separate solution for that, bypassing most 
of django's request system. That's what twisted gives you.

Cheers,
/Marcus