[issue1641] asyncore delayed calls feature

[Tres Seaver]

Tres Seaver <tseaver at agendaless.com> added the comment:

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Guido van Rossum wrote:

> ISTR that Zope has or had significant monkeypatches to at least one of
> asyncore/asynchat. The resulting coupling between Zope and asyn* has
> meant that the de-facto API of asyn* was much more than the documented
> API. IMO that's a sign of a poorly designed API (in asyn*). If Zope
> had had its own copy of asyn* (under a different name of course) that
> relied only on lower-level APIs (sockets and select), it could have
> evolved that copy directly without the need for monkeypatching.

Zope does not monkeypatch asyncore or asynchat, and hasn't since at
least Zope 2.5 (the oldest checkout I have, first released 2002-01-25).

Tres.
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