Re: [tor-dev] Damian's Status Report - November 2012

[Sean Robinson <seankrobinson@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Damian Johnson <atagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

* Answered a handful of controller inquiries on our lists. Stem's now
at a point where I don't mind suggesting it to developers. If you're
scripting or writing an application around tor then please give stem a
try! I'd love to get more feedback on where its rough edges are before
we make an initial release.

Hi all,

I agree that Stem is ready for script/application development use. I did a five-hour solo sprint[0] this week and I was able to move my desktop client controller from a branch of Damian's TorCtl to a branch of Damian's personal Stem repository with about 80% functionality.

The main changes to my controller were removing large swathes of code that are not needed, because Stem handles error conditions well and classes inherit from object. So, I do less error checking on my own and I can directly sub-class from stem.control.Controller.

I have been using Stem with gevent[1] using monkey patching for socket and threading. I have not had crashes from this unforeseen mixing of libraries. This as an indication of the high quality of the Stem code. I have thrown Stem into a vastly different execution context and it still operates correctly.

[0] This sounds so much better than, "I sat in front of my computer for five hours straight, on a Saturday."
[1] http://www.gevent.org/

-- 
Sean Robinson

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