# ChangeLog for dev-python/twisted # Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-python/twisted/ChangeLog,v 1.155 2012/05/09 00:02:50 aballier Exp $ 08 May 2012; Alexis Ballier twisted-12.0.0.ebuild: keyword ~amd64-fbsd 13 Apr 2012; Marien Zwart +files/twisted-12.0.0-fix-test-timeFormatting.patch, twisted-12.0.0.ebuild: Fix a test that fails in some timezones (bug #409329). *twisted-12.0.0 (22 Mar 2012) 22 Mar 2012; Patrick Lauer +twisted-12.0.0.ebuild: Bump 29 Dec 2011; Mike Gilbert twisted-11.1.0.ebuild: Fix line wrapping. 29 Dec 2011; Mike Gilbert twisted-11.1.0.ebuild: Call python_get_implementation_and_version from src_test. *twisted-11.1.0 (27 Dec 2011) 27 Dec 2011; Mike Gilbert +twisted-11.1.0.ebuild: Version bump for bug 395825 by Ian Delaney. Bits and pieces by Arfrever. 17 Jul 2011; Kacper Kowalik twisted-11.0.0.ebuild: ppc64 stable wrt #366131 17 Jun 2011; Jeroen Roovers twisted-11.0.0.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #366131). 12 Jun 2011; Raúl Porcel twisted-11.0.0.ebuild: alpha/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stable wrt #366131 03 Jun 2011; Brent Baude twisted-11.0.0.ebuild: Marking twisted-11.0.0 ppc stable for bug 366131 02 Jun 2011; Markus Meier twisted-11.0.0.ebuild: arm stable, bug #366131 26 May 2011; Pawel Hajdan jr twisted-11.0.0.ebuild: x86 stable wrt bug #366131 09 May 2011; Markos Chandras twisted-11.0.0.ebuild: Stable on amd64 wrt bug #366131 *twisted-11.0.0 (04 Apr 2011) 04 Apr 2011; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis +twisted-11.0.0.ebuild: Version bump. 25 Jan 2011; Jeroen Roovers twisted-10.2.0.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #350894). 21 Jan 2011; Thomas Kahle twisted-10.2.0.ebuild: x86 stable per bug 350894 12 Jan 2011; Markos Chandras twisted-10.2.0.ebuild: Stable on amd64 wrt bug #350894 06 Jan 2011; Brent Baude twisted-10.2.0.ebuild: Marking twisted-10.2.0 ppc stable for bug 350894 06 Jan 2011; Raúl Porcel twisted-10.2.0.ebuild: alpha/arm/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stable wrt #333211 29 Dec 2010; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis twisted-10.2.0.ebuild: Avoid test failures with root permissions. 28 Dec 2010; Brent Baude twisted-10.2.0.ebuild: Marking twisted-10.2.0 ppc64 for bug 333211 23 Dec 2010; Thomas Kahle twisted-10.1.0.ebuild: x86 stable per bug 333389 *twisted-10.2.0 (22 Dec 2010) 22 Dec 2010; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis +twisted-10.2.0.ebuild: Version bump. 25 Oct 2010; Jeroen Roovers twisted-10.1.0.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #333211). 10 Oct 2010; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis twisted-10.1.0.ebuild: Set MY_PACKAGE. Use twisted.eclass instead of distutils.eclass. Use twisted_pkg_postinst() and twisted_pkg_postrm() and avoid custom regeneration of Twisted plugin cache. 18 Aug 2010; Markos Chandras twisted-10.1.0.ebuild: Stable on amd64 wrt bug #333211 *twisted-10.1.0 (09 Jul 2010) 09 Jul 2010; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis +twisted-10.1.0.ebuild: Version bump. 23 Apr 2010; Fabian Groffen twisted-10.0.0.ebuild: Fix src_test for Prefix, thanks Dan Wallis in bug #316739 *twisted-10.0.0 (17 Mar 2010) 17 Mar 2010; Patrick Lauer +twisted-10.0.0.ebuild: Bump 13 Feb 2010; Raúl Porcel twisted-9.0.0-r1.ebuild: alpha/arm/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stable wrt #300702 10 Feb 2010; Jeroen Roovers twisted-9.0.0-r1.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #300702). 08 Feb 2010; Peter Volkov twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild, twisted-9.0.0-r1.ebuild: Add inherit eutils for epatch. 17 Jan 2010; Christian Faulhammer twisted-9.0.0-r1.ebuild: stable x86, bug 300702 13 Jan 2010; Markus Duft twisted-9.0.0-r1.ebuild: fixed ${D} -> ${D%/}${EPREFIX} for prefix support *twisted-9.0.0-r1 (12 Jan 2010) 12 Jan 2010; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis +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 twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild: alpha/arm/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stable wrt #289680 20 Dec 2009; Fabian Groffen twisted-9.0.0.ebuild: Merged keywords from Prefix, added small Prefix changes, bug #295035 16 Dec 2009; Brent Baude twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild: Marking twisted-8.2.0-r2 ppc64 stable for bug 289680 01 Dec 2009; Markus Meier 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 +twisted-9.0.0.ebuild: Version bump (bug #294924). 29 Nov 2009; Mounir Lamouri twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild: Stable for ppc, bug 289680 15 Nov 2009; Raúl Porcel twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild: Revert to ~alpha 11 Nov 2009; Jeroen Roovers twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #289680). 08 Nov 2009; Tobias Klausmann twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild: Stable on alpha, bug #289680 01 Nov 2009; Raúl Porcel 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 twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild: amd64/x86 stable, bug #289680 24 Oct 2009; nixnut twisted-8.2.0-r2.ebuild: ppc stable #289680 04 Oct 2009; Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis 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 files/twistd.init: Export PYTHONPATH in init script (bug #260322). 06 Sep 2009; Christian Ruppert 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 -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 +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 +twisted-1.2.0.ebuild: Undoing breakage 08 Jan 2009; Patrick Lauer +twisted-1.3.0.ebuild: Readding 1.3.0. Ooopsie ... 08 Jan 2009; Patrick Lauer -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 +twisted-8.2.0.ebuild: Bump to 8.2.0 20 Dec 2008; nixnut twisted-8.1.0.ebuild: Stable on ppc wrt bug 231675 04 Sep 2008; Rob Cakebread twisted-8.1.0.ebuild: Remove test if not using Python 2.5+ bug# 234370 13 Aug 2008; Santiago M. Mola twisted-8.1.0.ebuild: amd64 stable wrt bug #231675 08 Aug 2008; Raúl Porcel twisted-8.1.0.ebuild: alpha/ia64/x86 stable wrt #231675 08 Aug 2008; Markus Rothe twisted-8.1.0.ebuild: Stable on ppc64; bug #231675 08 Aug 2008; Jeroen Roovers twisted-8.1.0.ebuild: Stable for HPPA (bug #231675). 06 Aug 2008; Jesus Rivero metadata.xml: add GLEP 56 USE flag desc from use.local.desc 05 Aug 2008; Ferris McCormick twisted-8.1.0.ebuild: Sparc stable, part of Bug #231675. *twisted-8.1.0 (25 May 2008) 25 May 2008; Thomas Raschbacher 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 +twisted-8.0.1.ebuild: Version bump. 12 Mar 2008; Christian Heim metadata.xml: Removing Marien Zwart (marienz, #107204) from metadata.xml. 12 Mar 2007; Gustavo Zacarias twisted-2.4.0.ebuild: Stable on sparc 12 Mar 2007; Raúl Porcel twisted-2.4.0.ebuild: x86 stable 09 Feb 2007; Marien Zwart 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 -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 twisted-2.4.0.ebuild: Stable on Alpha. 25 Sep 2006; Javier Villavicencio twisted-2.4.0-r1.ebuild: Add ~x86-fbsd keyword. *twisted-2.4.0-r1 (20 Sep 2006) 20 Sep 2006; Marien Zwart +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 twisted-2.4.0.ebuild: hppa stable, bug #139612 13 Jul 2006; Aron Griffis 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 twisted-2.4.0.ebuild: Stable on ppc. 30 Jun 2006; Thomas Cort twisted-2.0.1.ebuild: Stable on alpha wrt Bug #128688. 28 Jun 2006; Luis Medinas twisted-2.4.0.ebuild: Stable on amd64. See bug #124293. 22 Jun 2006; Marien Zwart 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 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 twisted-2.0.1.ebuild: stable on amd64 *twisted-2.4.0 (26 May 2006) 26 May 2006; Marien Zwart +twisted-2.4.0.ebuild: Version bump. 25 May 2006; Michael Hanselmann twisted-2.0.1.ebuild: Stable on ppc. 12 May 2006; Tobias Scherbaum twisted-2.2.0.ebuild: Added ~hppa 03 May 2006; Mark Loeser twisted-2.0.1.ebuild: Stable on x86; bug #128688 01 May 2006; Markus Rothe twisted-2.2.0.ebuild: Added ~ppc64 27 Apr 2006; Marien Zwart files/digest-twisted-1.2.0, files/digest-twisted-1.3.0, Manifest: Fixing SHA256 digest, pass four 09 Apr 2006; Marien Zwart 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 twisted-2.0.1.ebuild: Stable on sparc wrt #128688 03 Apr 2006; Marien Zwart +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 twisted-2.2.0.ebuild: Fix minimal python requirement. *twisted-2.2.0 (13 Feb 2006) 13 Feb 2006; Marien Zwart +twisted-2.2.0.ebuild: Version bump. 06 Feb 2006; Aron Griffis twisted-1.3.0.ebuild: Mark 1.3.0 stable on alpha 02 Feb 2006; Marien Zwart Manifest: Fix rmd160 digests. 31 Jan 2006; Aron Griffis 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 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 -twisted-2.0.0.ebuild: Remove old ebuild. *twisted-2.0.1 (27 Nov 2005) 27 Nov 2005; Marien Zwart +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 twisted-2.1.0.ebuild: Clean up after running the tests. *twisted-2.1.0 (23 Nov 2005) 23 Nov 2005; Marien Zwart +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 twisted-2.0.0.ebuild: marked ~alpha wrt bug #110575 03 Nov 2005; Alastair Tse -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 twisted-1.3.0.ebuild: add ~ia64 22 May 2005; Simon Stelling twisted-2.0.0.ebuild: added ~amd64 keyword 05 May 2005; Sven Wegener 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 twisted-2.0.0.ebuild: Added to ~ppc 24 Apr 2005; Michael Hanselmann twisted-1.2.0.ebuild: Stable on ppc. 21 Apr 2005; Thomas Raschbacher : added zope.interface dep. Thanks to Stephan Wienczny for pointing this out. 08 Apr 2005; Thomas Raschbacher 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 : Change encoding to UTF-8 for GLEP 31 compliance 23 Oct 2004; Jason Wever twisted-1.3.0.ebuild: Added ~sparc keyword. 17 Oct 2004; Dylan Carlson twisted-1.2.0.ebuild: stable on amd64. 17 Jul 2004; Bryan Østergaard 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 twisted-1.2.0.ebuild: Stable on alpha. 03 Jun 2004; Aron Griffis 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 +twisted-1.3.0.ebuild: Version bump *twisted-1.2.1_alpha2 (06 May 2004) 06 May 2004; Thomas Raschbacher 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 twisted-1.2.0.ebuild: Added ~alpha to keywords. 06 Mar 2004; David Holm twisted-1.2.0.ebuild: Added to ~ppc. *twisted-1.2.0 (05 Mar 2004) 05 Mar 2004; Thomas Raschbacher twisted-1.2.0.ebuild: Version Bump (~arch for now) 16 Dec 2003; Jason Wever 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 twisted-1.1.1.ebuild, twisted-1.1.0.ebuild: fixed gtk,gtk2 deps 13 Dec 2003; Bryan Østergaard,,, twisted-1.1.1.ebuild: Version bump. 06 Dec 2003; Alastair Tse 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 twisted-1.1.0.ebuild: fixed dep for TwistedDocs -> twisted-docs move 27 Oct 2003; Thomas Raschbacher 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 twisted-1.0.7.ebuild: version bump *twisted-1.0.7-rc1 (30 Aug 2003) 30 Aug 2003; Thomas Raschbacher: removed alpha5 added rc1 *twisted-1.0.7-alpha5 (21 Aug 2003) 21 Aug 2003; Thomas Raschbacher : removed 1.0.7alpha4 added 1.0.7alpha5 19 Jul 2003; Alastair Tse 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 twisted-1.0.6.ebuild: new version (with security bugfix for twisted.web) 12 Jun 2003; twisted-1.0.2.ebuild: add Header *twisted-1.0.5 (09 May 2003) 09 May 2003; Thomas Raschbacher 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 twisted-1.0.4.ebuild new version *twisted-1.0.3-r1 (10 Apr 2003) 10 Apr 2003; Alastair Tse 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 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 : twisted-1.0.3.ebuild version bump (~arch) *twisted-1.0.2 (29 Jan 2003) 29 Jan 2003; Thomas Raschbacher : twisted-1.0.2.ebuild version bump (~arch cuz of freeze) *twisted-1.0.2_alpha4 (23 Jan 2003) 23 Jan 2003; Thomas Raschbacher : twisted-1.0.2_alpha4.ebuild version bump ~arch masked 26 Jan 2003; Thomas Raschbacher : twisted-1.0.2_alpha4.ebuild fixed typo in WORKDIR (fixed bug #14471) 06 Dec 2002; Rodney Rees : changed sparc ~sparc keywords *twisted-1.0.1-r1 (05 Dec 2002) 05 Dec 2002; Thomas Raschbacher : twisted-1.0.1-r1 Added dep for dev-python/pycrypto Added IUSE *twisted-1.0.1 (29 Nov 2002) Bart Verwilst 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 *twisted-0.99.4 (14 Okt 2002) Bart Verwilst Long overdue new version. Masked for testing (~x86) because of the freeze. *twisted-0.19.0 (1 Aug 2002) 1 Aug 2002; Jon Nelson 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 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 .