Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of WikiStart

Timestamp:

07/27/2007 04:42:08 PM (17 years ago)

Author:

Brian Warner

Comment:

add link to the gitweb-style repo browser

WikiStart

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 The current release is available [/releases/foolscap-0.1.4.tar.gz here]. This is an alpha release, since the protocol has not been finalized, and incompatible changes are being made every few months. Older releases are available [/releases/ here].
 
-The latest Foolscap code lives in a mercurial repository, at http://foolscap.lothar.com/repos/ . To retrieve a copy of the trunk use the following command:
+The latest Foolscap code lives in a [mercurial http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/] repository, at http://foolscap.lothar.com/repos/ . To retrieve a copy of the trunk use the following command:
 
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-There are two online source-code browsers, the native hgwebdir.cgi at http://foolscap.lothar.com/repos/trunk and the Trac Mercurial plugin at the [/trac/browser Browse Source] link above. Both are pretty handy.
+There are two online source-code browsers, the native hgwebdir.cgi at http://foolscap.lothar.com/repos/trunk (which also has a [http://foolscap.lothar.com/repos/trunk?style=gitweb gitweb-style view]), and the Trac Mercurial plugin at the [/trac/browser Browse Source] link above. Both are pretty handy.
 
 The documentation is in the [source:doc/ doc/ directory] and includes both the protocol specification and a short user's manual. Some day, it will probably be shipped as part of the "Twisted-Core" distribution, but only after the protocol and code have stabilized a bit.
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 Foolscap is not yet ready for production use. The [source:doc/todo.txt 'todo.txt'] and [source:doc/jobs.txt 'jobs.txt'] files contain some of the things that need finishing before it will be ready. Connection negotiation needs to be changed to use variable-length certificate digests and certificate chains and variable-length object names, various questions about making objects "giftable" by default or not need to be answered and implemented, and we need to acquire operational experience with Foolscap as a whole to think about usability.
 
-Release 0.1.4 is available in the [/releases/ releases directory].
+Release 0.1.4 (as well as older releases) are available in the [/releases/ releases directory].
 
+== Links ==
+
+ * Foolscap takes many ideas from the [http://www.erights.org/ E Language]. Foolscap is my attempt to make the concepts of E available to python+twisted programmers.
+ * The Twisted wiki has [http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/FoolsCap a page] on Foolscap where this information used to live.