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# ChangeLog for dev-python/twisted
# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation; Distributed under the GPL v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-python/twisted/ChangeLog,v 1.108 2009/10/04 20:01:14 arfrever Exp $
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>.
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