Axon - Core Concurrency framework- version 1.5.1 - overview of status

• API Stable for generator components
• Beta status API for Thread based components
• Non-CPU-greedy capable (scheduler can sleep and be awoken by threads)
• Production ready (>6 months on a running system)
  

Kamaelia - the toy box - version 0.5.0

Full coverage of core aims (introspection, network, graphics & codec capable, graphical systems composer, large examples)

API is subject to change (hence 0.5.0 status), but includes:

• Network - beta production ready (TCP/UDP/Multicast clients/servers)
  

• Graphics/GUI capabilities - Pygame, OpenGL, Tkinter (stable)
  

• Protocols - HTTP, BitTorrent - beta status

• Codec support - Dirac (encode/decode), Vorbis(decode), Speex(encode/decode), MP3 (decode - via pymedia)

• PyMedia based support for some audio codecs & audio capture
  

• Devices:

• Alsa, DVB (digital TV broadcast)

• Unix Shell outs

• eg to call transcoding tools

Larger scale systems in the distribution

• Kamaelia Macro (timeshift & transcode what's broadcast for viewing at a more convenient time)
• P2P Whiteboard (supporting multiple pages, linked whiteboards, audio mixing and retransmission, etc)

• Compose - a graphical composition tool for creating pipelines
• Axon Shell - a specialised command line allowing the launch of components as well as programs
• Axon Visualiser - a pygame based system for visualising what's going on inside a Kamaelia system (uses a physics model (based on a lava lamp(!) )for layout that we've had repeated comments looks fun/attractive :)
  
• Show - a presentation tool
  

Examples for many major subsystems

Extensive Documentation (at minimum detailed module level docs - ala pydoc)