From: Zooko O'Whielacronx Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 00:34:51 +0000 (-0700) Subject: better description of Foolscap in README X-Git-Tag: allmydata-tahoe-0.2.0~46 X-Git-Url: https://git.rkrishnan.org/reedownlee?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7bb8b4f04a5906a46beb6e5c09b1178d27067ced;p=tahoe-lafs%2Ftahoe-lafs.git better description of Foolscap in README --- diff --git a/relnotes.txt b/relnotes.txt index b8408d5c..05e02706 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. -It uses 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. +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. The underlying networking is provided by the Twisted library [12]. Computationally intensive operations are performed in native compiled code,