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diff --git a/dev-python/foolscap/metadata.xml b/dev-python/foolscap/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..de8f9439ef0 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-python/foolscap/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> + <herd>python</herd> +<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> |