From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 00:43:06 +0000 (-0700) Subject: edit description of Foolscap in relnotes.txt X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.2.0~45 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e258921b9d464a304bc5f2fb51fa806ecec71a4f;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git edit description of Foolscap in relnotes.txt --- diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index 05e02706..bc356d3d 100644 --- a/relnotes.txt +++ b/relnotes.txt @@ -97,11 +97,11 @@ SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE Tahoe is a "from the ground-up" rewrite, inspired by Allmydata's existing consumer backup service. It is primarily written in Python. -Tahoe is based on the Foolscap library [10] which provides a "translucent -remote object protocol" inspired by the capability-secure "E" programming -language [11]. Foolscap allows us to express the intended behavior of the -distributed grid directly in object-oriented terms while relying on a -well-engineered, secure transport layer. +Tahoe is based on the Foolscap library [10] which provides a remote object +protocol inspired by the capability-secure "E" programming language [11]. +Foolscap allows us to express the intended behavior of the distributed grid +directly in object-oriented terms while relying on a well-engineered, secure +transport layer. The underlying networking is provided by the Twisted library [12]. Computationally intensive operations are performed in native compiled code,