[Twisted-Python] Storage for a NNTP-server?

[Jp Calderone]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 12:39:50PM +0200, Thomas Weholt wrote:
> Was wondering what I can use for storage for a NNTP-server? I'd like all of
> my data to be kept in one place, data for a website, this news-server and
> whatever else I might think of .... storing. Is that possible?

  Anything that implements twisted.news.database.INewsStorage will do (Okay,
that class is new in CVS five minutes ago -- but all I did was rename
twisted.news.database.NewsStorage and make it inherit from Interface :).

> 
> Would it be possible to require authentication for a few given groups, --
> not all but some ?

  Sure would, but not without a few changes to the nntp code.  New cred
makes this kind of thing dead easy, if you want to give it a stab.

> 
> I was wildly inspired by tnttprss.py I found on this list a few days back.
> That was cool. But I don't want cog and/or pybsddb, because I allready got a
> SQL-database running.
> 

  There is an SQL INewsStorage implementation, but I'm not really sure what
state it is in, or if it was ever any good to begin with.  The most
used/tested NewsStorage is based on twisted.persisted.dirdbm.  It works
alright for small numbers of groups/articles, but I doubt it scales well.

  A filepile based NewsStorage would probably work very well, but I don't
yet know filepile well enough to undertake this :)

  Jp

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