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diff --git a/dev-python/foolscap/metadata.xml b/dev-python/foolscap/metadata.xml deleted file mode 100644 index 05b50f1ab47b..000000000000 --- a/dev-python/foolscap/metadata.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,28 +0,0 @@ -<?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> |