Is Orbited still active? And Long Polling Code

Question

So my question is if this project is still active? It seems orbited.org is down and I am finding old tutorials or documentation for the orbited project. I want to use this project to run some backend scripts that can take a while to run. That is they are pooling weblogic servers to start, stop, restart.

Should I stick with orbited or is there a better way to do this with django?

Answer 1

The top Google results for Orbited are all Summer '09, which seems to be when the last release was made. The last entry on pypi is 0.7.10, in June '09. A Wayback Machine shows the site last crawled in '09 as well.

So yes, it seems the project is dead.

This question: The latest recommendation for Comet in Python? and several pages turned up by a Google search seem to suggest Tornado http://www.tornadoweb.org/ or Twisted http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ as the alternative.

Answer 2

I think both are being maintained by separate people at this point, but they both seem to be active. Here are the links to where they are being maintained: Orbited, Orbited2

Answer 3

It appears that the project is, indeed, dead:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/orbited-users/MhEIjOxwEKM/I_fMdLGGAJYJ