status?

[Dave B.]

Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about the effort to salvage/rescue hookbox from the scrap heap.  It seemed to hold such a great deal of promise and was initially working very well for my application.

And if it is indeed gone, what are you all using in its place?

Thanks for any info,

Dave

[Salman Haq]

Dave,

Personally, I'm still using Hookbox in a production application with no
issues.

I still think hookbox has a lot of potential should it be revived.

However, socket.io seems to be the flavor of the month these days.

Thanks,
Salman

[Willi Richert]

Hi,

As you can follow here, we are working towards django-hookbox supporting the hookbox git version. Unfortunately, there are now many forks of it (the other one on github is this). Michael Carter complained about that diffused state in one of his last Django presentations. But so far, he has been too busy with his own startup to take care of it. I think this is a good chance for use to fork once more and try to salvage all those pull requests to mcarter's original project (together with more tests, a list of projects using it, etc.).

So far, I am quite happy with hookbox (only that for some reason Opera does not work for me). The point with socket.io is that you have to run Javascript on the server-side. And then again you have to take care of proper web framework integration. Or am I missing something here?

Thanks,
wr

2011/9/12 Salman Haq <salma...@asti-usa.com>

[Ziga Ham]

I have my own little fork here: https://github.com/hamax/django-serverpush
and I was thinking of rewriting it with socket.io and tornadio (python
server implementation), because of Opera and other issues with
hookbox.

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[Willi Richert]

Which other issues do you mean? From: Ziga Ham
Sent: Dienstag, 13. September 2011 11:15
To: hoo...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [hookbox] status?

[Alan Justino (alanjds)]

Well, I am using the commit 0dd50a8c9879dfd8 (https://github.com/
alanjds/hookbox/tree/stable) in production up to 3 months from now and
it seems very stable. It is a version derived from jordoh (Jordan
Phillips) and dlg (Dan Gould). But by the last activities, if I needed
to upgrade or start something right now I will use the branch from
raikage (Dax Reyes), who seems to be integrating the other branches
(including mine one).

I see no more commits as a smell that hookbox is featured and stable
enough for now, not that it is dead.

On Sep 13, 7:22 am, Willi Richert <willi.rich...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> > 2011/9/12 Salman Haq <salman....@asti-usa.com>

>
> >> On 09/12/2011 04:08 PM, Dave B. wrote:
>
> >>> Just wondering if anyone has heard anything about the effort to
> >>> salvage/rescue hookbox from the scrap heap.  It seemed to hold such a great
> >>> deal of promise and was initially working very well for my application.
>
> >>> And if it is indeed gone, what are you all using in its place?
>
> >>> Thanks for any info,
>
> >>> Dave
>
> >> Dave,
>
> >> Personally, I'm still using Hookbox in a production application with no
> >> issues.
>
> >> I still think hookbox has a lot of potential should it be revived.
>
> >> However, socket.io seems to be the flavor of the month these days.
>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Salman
>
> --
> Žiga Ham
>
> http://ziga.hamsworld.net

> emai: ziga....@gmail.com