Rpyc

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What's New
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* Supports CPython 2.4-2.7, IronPython, and Jython

* `tlslite <http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpyc/files/tlslite>`_ has been ported to
python 2.5-2.7 (the original library targeted 2.3 and 2.4)

* Initial python 3 support -- not finished!

* Moves to a more conventional directory structure

* Moves to more standard facilities (``logging``, ``nosetests``)

* Solves a major performance issue with the ``BgServingThread`` (`32`_),
by removing the contention between the two threads that share the connection

* Fixes lots of issues concerning the ForkingServer (`3`_, `7`_, and `15`_)

* Many small bug fixes (`16`_, `13`_, `4`_, etc.)

* Integrates with the built-in ``ssl`` module for SSL support

* ``rpyc_classic.py`` now takes several ``--ssl-xxx`` switches (see ``--help``
for more info)

* Fixes typos, running pylint, etc.

.. _3: https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc/issues/3
.. _4: https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc/issues/4
.. _7: https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc/issues/7
.. _13: https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc/issues/13
.. _15: https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc/issues/15
.. _16: https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc/issues/16
.. _32: https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc/issues/32

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* Moving to **git** as source control

* Build script: more egg formats; register in `pypi <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/RPyC/>`_ ;
remove svn; auto-generate ``license.py`` as well

* Cosmetic touches to ``Connection``: separate ``serve`` into ``_recv`` and ``dispatch``

* Shutdown socket before closing (``SHUT_RDWR``) to prevent ``TIME_WAIT`` and other
problems with various Unixes

* ``PipeStream``: use low-level file APIs (``os.read``, ``os.write``) to prevent
stdio-level buffering that messed up ``select``

* ``classic_server.py``: open logfile for writing (was opened for reading)

* ``registry_server.py``: type of ``timeout`` is now ``int`` (was ``str``)

* ``utils/server.py``: better handling of sockets; fix python 2.4 syntax issue

* ``ForkingServer``: re-register ``SIGCHLD`` handler after handling that signal,
to support non-BSD-compliant platforms where after the invocation of the signal
handler, the handler is reset

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* Handle metaclasses better in ``inspect_methods``

* ``vinegar.py``: handle old-style-class exceptions better; python 2.4 issues

* ``VdbAuthenticator``: when loading files, open for read only; API changes
(``from_dict`` instead of ``from_users``), ``from_file`` accepts open-mode

* ``ForkingServer``: better handling of SIGCHLD

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* ``setup.py`` now also creates egg files

* Slightly improved ``servers/vdbconf.py``

* Fixes to ``utis/server.py``:

* The authenticator is now invoked by ``_accept_client``, which means it is invoked
on the client's context (thread or child process). This solves a problem with
the forking server having a TLS authenticator.

* Changed the forking server to handle ``SIGCHLD`` instead of using double-fork.

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* Fix: ``inspect_methods`` used ``dir`` and ``getattr`` to inspect the given object;
this caused a problem with premature activation of properties (as they are
activated by ``getattr``). Now it inspects the object's type instead, following
the MRO by itself, to avoid possible side effects.

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* Changed versioning scheme: now 3.0.3 instead of 3.03, and the version tuple is (3, 0, 3)

* Added ``servers/vdbconf.py`` - a utility to manage verifier databases (used by ``tlslite``)

* Added the ``--vdb`` switch to ``classic_server.py``, which invokes a secure server
(TLS) with the given VDB file.