id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
2782	code reorg: less inheritance, more delegation/composition	warner		"In the comments on [https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/pull/270 PR270], meejah pointed out that `Client.__init__` is doing a lot of work, and that it might be better to build these nodes with a function (rather than a class constructor) that is *given* the supporting objects (like an !IntroducerClient, !StorageServer, and !Tub), instead of creating those things itself. Glyph recently pointed me at an enlightening presentation known as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MNVP9-hglc ""The Talk""] from PyCon2013, that encourages composition over inheritance, which ties in.

I'm not exactly sure what this would look like, but we could start by either merging Node and Client into a single class, or passing Node in as an argument to the Client constructor. Then we might make a client-creating function that builds Storage Servers and Introducer Clients first, then passes them as arguments into the Client constructor.
"	task	new	minor	undecided	code	1.11.0