The orbited 0.4.0 branch has been under heavy development for the past month and we are finally starting to near an alpha release. While this release won’t be immediately useful to Comet developers, it can give you a good idea of what will be in the final Orbited 0.4.0 release. There’s news on a new website, the ORBIT protocol, the STOMP Protocol, layered communication, CSP, Revolved, deployability, and the goals for the 0.4 branch.

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One of the most frequent problems people have with Orbited generally surfaces before they write a single line of application logic — before, in fact, they successfully start the Orbited server for the first time. This problem is pyevent. It’s a brilliant piece of software, but many of us want to build small projects or simply prototype without having to install two sets of additional headers and gcc.

To most of you, I’m sure this doesn’t sound like a great hardship. Comet developers, however, are not most of anything. We’re strange people and we often work under strange conditions. My house loses its internet connection every few minutes; other developers are subject to the irrational decrees of their admins, or the arcane limitations of their indie operating systems. People have literally decided not to use Orbited because they couldn’t compile pyevent properly. We’re modern folks, and the rule is: make it work for everyone.

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