Emails with Chris Armstrong regarding Twisted roadmap

From:   radix@twistedmatrix.com
Subject: Re: Twisted 1.3?
Date: May 10, 2004 10:24:09 AM PDT
To:   bkirsch@osafoundation.org

Yo Brian. I *just* released 1.3.0rc1. The final release should be soon.
The main point of this release is that it's the last one before we
start splitting stuff off into separate projects.
I'll get Itamar to draw up some release notes soon, 
before the release of 1.3 final.

I don't think there were any major deprecations in this release,
but it's been a while. Unfortunately we don't keep a central list of 
deprecations added. But, don't worry, a deprecation is always just that
-- a deprecation, not a removal. You may see 
DeprecationWarnings when you run code, but it doesn't 
mean we've removed the functionality -- yet. We 
usually wait several releases to do that.

This will definitely be less of a mess when we break
Twisted up into smaller projects. It will be easier to manage,
and we'll be able to keep track of these things better.

From:   radix@twistedmatrix.com
Subject: Re: Twisted 1.3?
Date: May 10, 2004 3:06:5


>>Hi Chris,
>>Thanks for the response. Can you briefly describe how you envision Twisted being 
>>split in future generations. Our main interest currently is mail but it would
>>be nice to leverage other areas of Twisted. How Twisted is separated
>>will have an impact on our work so it would be great to get some more info.

Refer to the mailing list archives. The gist is that there will be "twisted core" 
containing internet, cred, application, and maybe spread, and several other
packages that contain relevant protocols + framework/application code.
e.g., The new 'mail' package will have SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, and eventually
some framework code, perhaps. the new 'web' package will contain 
HTTP and the resource framework. etc.

-- BrianKirsch - 10 May 2004