> `Re: GadflyDA in core? Or as add-on-product?`__ > ================================================ > __ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-January/032295.html > > The idea was proposed to add Gadfly_ to the stdlib. Two issues came > up about doing this. One was that it would require having to deal > with another license. Aaron Watters (the original author of Gadfly) > was emailed to ask if he would be willing to donate the code to the > `Python Software Foundation`_, but he did not respond (at least to the > list). I have now. The answer was "yes" and I'm very proud to have been asked! > The other issue was the use of kjbuckets_. Guido was -1 on letting it > into the stdlib because he had "heard it's some of .the hairiest C > code ever written". I've seen a lot of C code, so that is *really* a compliment! Thanks! :) > But Richard Jones said that Anthony Baxter is > working on removing the dependency on kjbuckets by rewriting the code > using the Sets_ module introduced in Python 2.3. I would strongly prefer that kjbuckets be maintained as the default if present, but given that I stopped working on gadfly some years ago I will leave that to the discretion of others. I doubt Sets_ would be faster. -- Aaron Watters
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