Relationship with python-hyper

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Relationship with python-hyper

scribu opened this issue 8 years ago · comments

While looking for HTTP/2 libraries, I encountered two libraries with "hyper" in the name (and even the same logo in the README):

https://github.com/Lukasa/hyper (this one)
https://github.com/python-hyper/hyper-h2

I understand that hyper-h2 is meant to be lower-level, yet I don't see it listed as a dependency in the higher-level hyper lib.

Is hyper deprecated?

Cory Benfield · Answer 1 · Mon Nov 07 2016 15:45:53 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

hyper-h2 is definitely a dependency of this library: here it is!

This naming confusion is really annoying but it stems from how these things got to be. This library was the first one I wrote. When I encountered problems with code re-use, hyperframe and hpack were both pulled out of it and moved into a common organisation. I then started h2 as a sans-IO approach to HTTP/2 that could be re-used by this library, which it now is.

Ultimately, this library is the progenitor of the name. Formally, hyper-h2 is better-called just 'h2'.