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authorV3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org>2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100
committerV3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org>2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <maintainer type="project">
+ <email>python@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Python</name>
+ </maintainer>
+ <longdescription>
+This is a ground-up rewrite of Perspective Broker, which itself is Twisted's
+native RPC/RMI protocol (Remote Procedure Call / Remote Method Invocation).
+If you have control of both ends of the wire, and are thus not constrained to
+use some other protocol like HTTP/XMLRPC/CORBA/etc, you might consider using
+Foolscap.
+
+Fundamentally, Foolscap allows you to make a python object in one process
+available to code in other processes, which means you can invoke its methods
+remotely. This includes a data serialization layer to convey the object
+graphs for the arguments and the eventual response, and an object reference
+system to keep track of which objects you are connecting to. It uses a
+capability-based security model, such that once you create a non-public
+object, it is only accessible to clients to whom you've given the
+(unguessable) FURL. You can of course publish world-visible objects that
+have well-known FURLs.
+</longdescription>
+ <upstream>
+ <remote-id type="pypi">foolscap</remote-id>
+ </upstream>
+</pkgmetadata>