Simon Willison’s Weblog

On packaging. James Bennett discusses the problems with setuptools (and ruby gems), and recommends Ian Bicking’s pip as a setuptools replacement.

# 14th December 2008, 4:57 pm / python, setuptools, pip, ian-bicking, james-bennett, ruby, gems

stompserver. I think this is the lightweight message queue I’ve been looking for: written in Ruby and EventMachine, easy to set up (thanks to gems), interoperates perfectly with stomp.py.

# 14th December 2007, 4:40 pm / python, ruby, stomp, messaging, message-queues, eventmachine, lightweight, gems