History
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Eventlet began life as Donovan Preston was talking to Bob Ippolito
about coroutine-based non-blocking networking frameworks in Python.
Most non-blocking frameworks require you to run the "main loop" in
order to perform all network operations, but Donovan wondered if a
library written using a trampolining style could get away with
transparently running the main loop any time i/o was required,
stopping the main loop once no more i/o was scheduled. Bob spent a few
days during PyCon 2006 writing a proof-of-concept. He named it
eventlet, after the coroutine implementation it used, greenlet.
Donovan began using eventlet as a light-weight network library for his
spare-time project Pavel, and also began writing some unittests.

* http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/eventlet/trunk/

When Donovan started at Linden Lab in May of 2006, he added eventlet
as an svn external in the "indra/lib/python directory", to be a
dependency of the yet-to-be-named backbone project (at the time, it
was named restserv). However, including eventlet as an svn external
meant that any time the externally hosted project had hosting issues,
Linden developers were not able to perform svn updates. Thus, the
eventlet source was imported into the linden source tree at the same
location, and became a fork.

Bob Ippolito has ceased working on eventlet and has stated his desire
for Linden to take it's fork forward to the open source world as "the"
eventlet.
