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# ChangeLog for dev-python/twisted
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*twisted-9.0.0-r1 (12 Jan 2010)

  12 Jan 2010; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>
  +twisted-9.0.0-r1.ebuild,
  +files/twisted-9.0.0-respect_TWISTED_DISABLE_WRITING_OF_PLUGIN_CACHE.patch:
  Install Twisted egg-info (bug #299736). Respect
  TWISTED_DISABLE_WRITING_OF_PLUGIN_CACHE variable, which should be set in
  ebuilds of some other packages to avoid permission errors.

  20 Dec 2009; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  alpha/arm/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stable wrt #289680

  20 Dec 2009; Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> twisted-9.0.0.ebuild:
  Merged keywords from Prefix, added small Prefix changes, bug #295035

  16 Dec 2009; Brent Baude <ranger@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  Marking twisted-8.2.0-r2 ppc64 stable for bug 289680

  01 Dec 2009; Markus Meier <maekke@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  amd64/x86 stable, bug #289680

*twisted-9.0.0 (30 Nov 2009)

  30 Nov 2009; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>
  +twisted-9.0.0.ebuild:
  Version bump (bug #294924).

  29 Nov 2009; Mounir Lamouri <volkmar@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  Stable for ppc, bug 289680

  15 Nov 2009; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  Revert to ~alpha

  11 Nov 2009; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  Stable for HPPA (bug #289680).

  08 Nov 2009; Tobias Klausmann <klausman@gentoo.org>
  twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  Stable on alpha, bug #289680

  01 Nov 2009; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  Revert keywords until all twisted-8.2.0-related packages are stable as
  well

  30 Oct 2009; Markus Meier <maekke@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  amd64/x86 stable, bug #289680

  24 Oct 2009; nixnut <nixnut@gentoo.org> twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  ppc stable #289680

  04 Oct 2009; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>
  twisted-8.1.0.ebuild, twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild:
  net-zope/zopeinterface renamed to net-zope/zope-interface.

  10 Sep 2009; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>
  files/twistd.init:
  Export PYTHONPATH in init script (bug #260322).

  06 Sep 2009; Christian Ruppert <idl0r@gentoo.org> twisted-1.2.0.ebuild,
  twisted-1.3.0.ebuild, -files/twisted-2.0.1-echo-less.patch,
  -files/twisted-2.1.0-trial-tests.patch,
  -files/twisted-2.1.0-trial-tests2.patch, twisted-8.1.0.ebuild,
  twisted-8.2.0.ebuild:
  Remove unused patch. Fix repoman complains.

*twisted-8.2.0-r2 (28 Aug 2009)

  28 Aug 2009; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever@gentoo.org>
  -twisted-8.2.0-r1.ebuild, +twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild,
  -files/twisted-8.2.0_deprecations.patch, files/twisted-8.2.0_tests.patch:
  Set SUPPORT_PYTHON_ABIS. Disable broken tests (bug #181470 and bug
  #190433). Remove broken patch (bug #268737).

*twisted-8.2.0-r1 (16 Jul 2009)

  16 Jul 2009; Jesus Rivero <neurogeek@gentoo.org>
  +files/twisted-8.2.0_deprecations.patch, +files/twisted-8.2.0_tests.patch,
  +twisted-8.2.0-r1.ebuild:
  Fixed test failures wrt bug #190433. Changed to EAPI 2. Added patches for
  py26 deprecations

  08 Jan 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> +twisted-1.2.0.ebuild:
  Undoing breakage

  08 Jan 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> +twisted-1.3.0.ebuild:
  Readding 1.3.0. Ooopsie ...

  08 Jan 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> -twisted-1.2.0.ebuild,
  -twisted-1.3.0.ebuild, -twisted-2.0.1.ebuild, -twisted-2.1.0.ebuild,
  -twisted-2.2.0.ebuild, -twisted-2.4.0.ebuild, -twisted-2.5.0.ebuild,
  -twisted-8.0.1.ebuild:
  Remove old

*twisted-8.2.0 (08 Jan 2009)

  08 Jan 2009; Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> +twisted-8.2.0.ebuild:
  Bump to 8.2.0

  20 Dec 2008; nixnut <nixnut@gentoo.org> twisted-8.1.0.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc wrt bug 231675

  04 Sep 2008; Rob Cakebread <pythonhead@gentoo.org> twisted-8.1.0.ebuild:
  Remove test if not using Python 2.5+ bug# 234370

  13 Aug 2008; Santiago M. Mola <coldwind@gentoo.org> twisted-8.1.0.ebuild:
  amd64 stable wrt bug #231675

  08 Aug 2008; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> twisted-8.1.0.ebuild:
  alpha/ia64/x86 stable wrt #231675

  08 Aug 2008; Markus Rothe <corsair@gentoo.org> twisted-8.1.0.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc64; bug #231675

  08 Aug 2008; Jeroen Roovers <jer@gentoo.org> twisted-8.1.0.ebuild:
  Stable for HPPA (bug #231675).

  06 Aug 2008; Jesus Rivero <neurogeek@gentoo.org> metadata.xml:
  add GLEP 56 USE flag desc from use.local.desc

  05 Aug 2008; Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org> twisted-8.1.0.ebuild:
  Sparc stable, part of Bug #231675.

*twisted-8.1.0 (25 May 2008)

  25 May 2008; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.2.0.ebuild,
  twisted-1.3.0.ebuild, +twisted-8.1.0.ebuild:
  Version bump to 8.1.0 + some minor fixes to older ebuilds

*twisted-8.0.1 (13 May 2008)

  13 May 2008; Ali Polatel <hawking@gentoo.org> +twisted-8.0.1.ebuild:
  Version bump.

  12 Mar 2008; Christian Heim <phreak@gentoo.org> metadata.xml:
  Removing Marien Zwart (marienz, #107204) from metadata.xml.

  12 Mar 2007; Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@gentoo.org> twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  Stable on sparc

  12 Mar 2007; Raúl Porcel <armin76@gentoo.org> twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  x86 stable

  09 Feb 2007; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> files/digest-twisted-2.2.0,
  Manifest:
  Fix broken digest. Thanks to Benjamin Gehrels for reporting, closes bug
  #166124.

*twisted-2.5.0 (11 Jan 2007)

  11 Jan 2007; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org>
  -files/twisted-2.4.0-python-2.5-compat.patch,
  -files/twisted-2.4.0-remove-newjelly.patch,
  -files/twisted-2.4.0-trial-attempted-fix.patch,
  -files/twisted-2.4.0-trial-python-2.5-compat.patch,
  -files/twisted-2.4.0-unjellyable.patch, -twisted-2.4.0-r1.ebuild,
  +twisted-2.5.0.ebuild:
  Version bump, drop revision patched to work with python 2.5 (use the new
  bump instead).

  20 Oct 2006; Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org> twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  Stable on Alpha.

  25 Sep 2006; Javier Villavicencio <the_paya@gentoo.org>
  twisted-2.4.0-r1.ebuild:
  Add ~x86-fbsd keyword.

*twisted-2.4.0-r1 (20 Sep 2006)

  20 Sep 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org>
  +files/twisted-2.4.0-python-2.5-compat.patch,
  +files/twisted-2.4.0-remove-newjelly.patch,
  +files/twisted-2.4.0-trial-attempted-fix.patch,
  +files/twisted-2.4.0-trial-python-2.5-compat.patch,
  +files/twisted-2.4.0-unjellyable.patch, +twisted-2.4.0-r1.ebuild:
  Add a couple of patches from upstream to work with python 2.5. Does not
  quite pass its tests, that needs a fix in zopeinterface.

  16 Jul 2006; Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org>
  twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  hppa stable, bug #139612

  13 Jul 2006; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> twisted-2.2.0.ebuild,
  twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  Mark 2.2.0 and 2.4.0 stable on ia64

  02 Jul 2006; Lars Weiler <pylon@gentoo.org> twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc.

  30 Jun 2006; Thomas Cort <tcort@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.1.ebuild:
  Stable on alpha wrt Bug #128688.

  28 Jun 2006; Luis Medinas <metalgod@gentoo.org> twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  Stable on amd64. See bug #124293.

  22 Jun 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.1.ebuild,
  twisted-2.1.0.ebuild, twisted-2.2.0.ebuild, twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  Block twisted-docs (the manpages collide).

  04 Jun 2006; Brent Baude <ranger@gentoo.org> twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  Marking twisted-2.4.0 ppc64 stable to handle net-dns/avahi deps per Mr Bones

  29 May 2006; Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.1.ebuild:
  stable on amd64

*twisted-2.4.0 (26 May 2006)

  26 May 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> +twisted-2.4.0.ebuild:
  Version bump.

  25 May 2006; Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.1.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc.

  12 May 2006; Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org>
  twisted-2.2.0.ebuild:
  Added ~hppa

  03 May 2006; Mark Loeser <halcy0n@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.1.ebuild:
  Stable on x86; bug #128688

  01 May 2006; Markus Rothe <corsair@gentoo.org> twisted-2.2.0.ebuild:
  Added ~ppc64

  27 Apr 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> files/digest-twisted-1.2.0,
  files/digest-twisted-1.3.0, Manifest:
  Fixing SHA256 digest, pass four

  09 Apr 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.1.ebuild,
  twisted-2.1.0.ebuild, twisted-2.2.0.ebuild:
  Add PYTHONPATH to tests to make them work without userpriv in FEATURES.

  03 Apr 2006; Gustavo Zacarias <gustavoz@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.1.ebuild:
  Stable on sparc wrt #128688

  03 Apr 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org>
  +files/twisted-2.0.1-echo-less.patch,
  +files/twisted-2.1.0-echo-less.patch, twisted-2.0.1.ebuild,
  twisted-2.1.0.ebuild, twisted-2.2.0.ebuild:
  Make the process tests work on a slower or loaded cpu, thanks to gustavoz
  for reporting.

  13 Feb 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> twisted-2.2.0.ebuild:
  Fix minimal python requirement.

*twisted-2.2.0 (13 Feb 2006)

  13 Feb 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> +twisted-2.2.0.ebuild:
  Version bump.

  06 Feb 2006; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> twisted-1.3.0.ebuild:
  Mark 1.3.0 stable on alpha

  02 Feb 2006; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> Manifest:
  Fix rmd160 digests.

  31 Jan 2006; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> twisted-1.3.0.ebuild,
  twisted-2.1.0.ebuild:
  Mark 1.3.0 stable on ia64, mark 2.1.0 ~ia64

  04 Dec 2005; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.1.ebuild,
  twisted-2.1.0.ebuild:
  Remove einfo referring to nonexistant meta-ebuild (thanks to TFKyle for
  noticing)

  30 Nov 2005; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> -twisted-2.0.0.ebuild:
  Remove old ebuild.

*twisted-2.0.1 (27 Nov 2005)

  27 Nov 2005; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> +twisted-2.0.1.ebuild:
  Version bump to 2.0.1 for people who cannot use 2.1.0 for some reason (based
  on the 2.1.0 ebuild, not the 2.0.0 ebuild, bug #80639)

  23 Nov 2005; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org> twisted-2.1.0.ebuild:
  Clean up after running the tests.

*twisted-2.1.0 (23 Nov 2005)

  23 Nov 2005; Marien Zwart <marienz@gentoo.org>
  +files/twisted-2.1.0-trial-tests.patch,
  +files/twisted-2.1.0-trial-tests2.patch,
  +files/twisted-2.1.0-zsh-head.patch, +files/twistd.conf,
  +files/twistd.init, metadata.xml, +twisted-2.1.0.ebuild:
  version bump to 2.1.0 to fix bug 110388, and a lot of ebuild changes to fix
  part of bug 80639. Taking over maintainership.

  05 Nov 2005; Fernando J. Pereda <ferdy@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.0.ebuild:
  marked ~alpha wrt bug #110575

  03 Nov 2005; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> -twisted-1.1.0.ebuild,
  -twisted-1.1.1.ebuild, twisted-1.2.0.ebuild, -twisted-1.2.1_alpha2.ebuild,
  twisted-1.3.0.ebuild, twisted-2.0.0.ebuild:
  removed gtk2 useflag

  26 Aug 2005; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> twisted-1.3.0.ebuild:
  add ~ia64

  22 May 2005; Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.0.ebuild:
  added ~amd64 keyword

  05 May 2005; Sven Wegener <swegener@gentoo.org> twisted-1.1.0.ebuild,
  twisted-1.1.1.ebuild, twisted-1.2.0.ebuild, twisted-1.2.1_alpha2.ebuild,
  twisted-1.3.0.ebuild, twisted-2.0.0.ebuild:
  Removed trailing * from <, <=, >= and > dependencies.

  30 Apr 2005; David Holm <dholm@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.0.ebuild:
  Added to ~ppc

  24 Apr 2005; Michael Hanselmann <hansmi@gentoo.org> twisted-1.2.0.ebuild:
  Stable on ppc.

  21 Apr 2005; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> :
  added zope.interface dep.
  Thanks to Stephan Wienczny <Stephan@Wienczny.de> for pointing this out.

  08 Apr 2005; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-2.0.0.ebuild:
  Version bump (package split now look out for twisted-web, twisted-mail,
  twisted-conch,... within the next few days)

  31 Dec 2004; Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org> :
  Change encoding to UTF-8 for GLEP 31 compliance

  23 Oct 2004; Jason Wever <weeve@gentoo.org> twisted-1.3.0.ebuild:
  Added ~sparc keyword.

  17 Oct 2004; Dylan Carlson <absinthe@gentoo.org> twisted-1.2.0.ebuild:
  stable on amd64.

  17 Jul 2004; Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org> twisted-1.1.1.ebuild,
  twisted-1.2.0.ebuild, twisted-1.2.1_alpha2.ebuild, twisted-1.3.0.ebuild:
  Fix pyopenssl dependencies.

  04 Jul 2004; Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org> twisted-1.2.0.ebuild:
  Stable on alpha.

  03 Jun 2004; Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org> twisted-1.1.0.ebuild,
  twisted-1.1.1.ebuild, twisted-1.2.0.ebuild, twisted-1.2.1_alpha2.ebuild,
  twisted-1.3.0.ebuild:
  Fix use invocation

*twisted-1.3.0 (19 May 2004)

  19 May 2004; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> +twisted-1.3.0.ebuild:
  Version bump

*twisted-1.2.1_alpha2 (06 May 2004)

  06 May 2004; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.2.0.ebuild,
  +twisted-1.2.1_alpha2.ebuild:
  added 1.2.1_alpha2
  marked 1.2.0 stable on x86

  22 Apr 2004; Bryan Østergaard <kloeri@gentoo.org> twisted-1.2.0.ebuild:
  Added ~alpha to keywords.

  06 Mar 2004; David Holm <dholm@gentoo.org> twisted-1.2.0.ebuild:
  Added to ~ppc.

*twisted-1.2.0 (05 Mar 2004)

  05 Mar 2004; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org>
  twisted-1.2.0.ebuild:
  Version Bump (~arch for now)

	
  16 Dec 2003; Jason Wever <weeve@gentoo.org> twisted-1.1.0.ebuild:
  Changed sparc keyword to ~sparc as dependency dev-python/pycrypto was missing
  any sparc keywords.

*twisted-1.1.1 (13 Dec 2003)

  21 Jan 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.1.1.ebuild,
  twisted-1.1.0.ebuild:
  fixed gtk,gtk2 deps
	
  13 Dec 2003; Bryan Østergaard,,, <kloeri@gentoo.org> twisted-1.1.1.ebuild:
  Version bump.

  06 Dec 2003; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> twisted-1.0.6.ebuild,
  twisted-1.0.7.ebuild, twisted-1.0.7_rc1.ebuild, twisted-1.1.0.ebuild:
  cleanup and fix gtk2 useflags (#34558)

*twisted-1.1.0 (27 Oct 2003)
  03 Nov 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.1.0.ebuild:
  fixed dep for TwistedDocs -> twisted-docs move

  27 Oct 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.1.0.ebuild:
  version bump
  using _NoDocs tarball now (dev-python/twisted-docs created)
	
*twisted-1.0.7 (13 Sep 2003)
  13 Sep 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.0.7.ebuild:
  version bump
	
*twisted-1.0.7-rc1 (30 Aug 2003)
  30 Aug 2003; Thomas Raschbacher<lordvan@gentoo.org>:
  removed alpha5
  added rc1
	
*twisted-1.0.7-alpha5 (21 Aug 2003)
  21 Aug 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org>:
  removed 1.0.7alpha4 
  added 1.0.7alpha5
	
  19 Jul 2003; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> metadata.xml,
  twisted-1.0.1-r1.ebuild, twisted-1.0.2.ebuild, twisted-1.0.3-r1.ebuild,
  twisted-1.0.3.ebuild, twisted-1.0.4.ebuild, twisted-1.0.5.ebuild:
  cleaned out old versions because of security issues pre-1.0.6. added lordvan
  one of the maintainers

*twisted-1.0.6 (29 Jun 2003)
  29 Jun 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.0.6.ebuild:
  new version (with security bugfix for twisted.web)

  12 Jun 2003; <msterret@gentoo.org> twisted-1.0.2.ebuild:
  add Header

*twisted-1.0.5 (09 May 2003)
  09 May 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.0.5.ebuild:
  new ebuild (does not support python-2.1 anymore!
	
*twisted-1.0.4 (18 Apr 2003)
  18 Apr 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org> twisted-1.0.4.ebuild
  new version
	
*twisted-1.0.3-r1 (10 Apr 2003)

  10 Apr 2003; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> twisted-1.0.3-r1.ebuild:
  added pygtk deps, and fix manhole to use pygtk2 is requested

*twisted-1.0.3 (16 Feb 2003)

  05 Apr 2003; Alastair Tse <liquidx@gentoo.org> twisted-1.0.1.ebuild,
  twisted-1.0.1.ebuild, twisted-1.0.2_alpha4.ebuild,
  twisted-1.0.2_alpha4.ebuild, twisted-1.0.3.ebuild:
  bump to stable

  16 Feb 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org>: twisted-1.0.3.ebuild
  version bump (~arch)
	
*twisted-1.0.2 (29 Jan 2003)
  29 Jan 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org>: twisted-1.0.2.ebuild
  version bump (~arch cuz of freeze)

*twisted-1.0.2_alpha4 (23 Jan 2003)
  23 Jan 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org>: twisted-1.0.2_alpha4.ebuild
  version bump ~arch masked
  26 Jan 2003; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org>: twisted-1.0.2_alpha4.ebuild
  fixed typo in WORKDIR (fixed bug #14471)
  06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees <manson@gentoo.org> : changed sparc ~sparc keywords
 
*twisted-1.0.1-r1 (05 Dec 2002)
  05 Dec 2002; Thomas Raschbacher <lordvan@gentoo.org>: twisted-1.0.1-r1
  Added dep for dev-python/pycrypto
  Added IUSE
	
*twisted-1.0.1 (29 Nov 2002) Bart Verwilst <verwilst@gentoo.org>

  New version, with lots of bugfixes to the ebuild itself as well, 
  provided by Thomas Raschbacher. 

*twisted-1.0.0 (26 Okt 2002) Bart Verwilst <verwilst@gentoo.org>

*twisted-0.99.4 (14 Okt 2002) Bart Verwilst <verwilst@gentoo.org>

  Long overdue new version. Masked for testing (~x86) because of the freeze.


*twisted-0.19.0 (1 Aug 2002)
  1 Aug 2002; Jon Nelson <jnelson@gentoo.org> twisted-0.18.0.ebuild twisted-0.19.0.ebuild :
  
  Add KEYWORDS to 0.18.0 and update to 0.19.0 at the same time
  0.19.0 uses distutils eclass

  Update LICENSE to use LGPL-2.1
  
*twisted-0.18.0 (03 Jun 2002)

  03 Jun 2002; Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@gentoo.org> twisted-0.18.0.ebuild files/digest-twisted-0.18.0 :
  
  From the web page:
  
  What Is Twisted?
  An Application Suite

  Twisted is a collection of servers and clients, which can be used
  either by developers of new applications or directly. Instance Messenger
  and Twisted Web are both available out of the box as applications for
  the desktop user. 

  A Development Tool

  Twisted is a framework, written in Python, for writing networked
  applications. It includes implementations of a number of commonly used
  network services such as a web server, an IRC chat server, a mail
  server, a relational database interface and an object broker. Developers
  can build applications using all of these services as well as custom
  services that they write themselves. Twisted also includes a user
  authentication system that controls access to services and provides
  services with user context information to implement their own security
  models. 

  An Integrated Environment

  Twisted is an integration point for network services that were
  previously unable to interoperate. Services within a Twisted server can
  communicate with each other and share information providing a very
  integrated programming environment that can re-use large amounts of
  infrastructure across multiple network mediums (such as chat, web, and
  mail).

  As well as servers, Twisted supports several different kinds of
  clients and GUIs. This means that the client can re-use large portions
  of the server's code, improving test coverage and reliability while
  reducing code size. 

  All at Once?

  A common reaction to this amount of functionality all in one box is that
  it's overwhelming. Why are chat and web in the same server? Why network
  your client with the same infrastructure that you're using on the
  server? Why give programmers and users the same tool? And how do you
  achieve that while remaining lightweight and minimal-impact?

  At first glance, these are really different problems requiring different
  solutions -- at least, in the traditional way of thinking about them.
  However, the traditional approach to network software development has
  erected artificial barriers between applications. Those barriers prevent
  developers from easily adding useful functionality. As an example,
  putting a web administration interface on your IRC server can be
  difficult, if it's even possible. Once you've done it, chances are you
  can't use that same web server you set up to serve your filesystem.

  Unless you're using Twisted. In that case, your chat server's web
  interface is running with the same industrial strength application
  server that runs your whole web site. The connections are automatic,
  since servers that need to talk to each other already have a robust
  client in them. As a user, you don't need to learn much programming in
  order to enhance your Twisted environment; your favorite new feature is
  just a Python script away.

  And strangely enough, integrating all this functionality reduces bloat.
  Apache, the industry-standard HTTP daemon, weighs in at 3.7 megabytes;
  Twisted is a mere 0.5 megabytes.


  Ebuild submitted by Gontran Zepeda <gontran@gontran.net>.