[Twisted-Python] Re: Offtopic "Twista" (was WebDAV?)

[Andrew Stribblehill]

Quoting Christopher Armstrong <carmstro at twistedmatrix.com> (2002-07-19 09:11:36 BST):
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 03:53:43PM -0400, Levi wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:18:01PM +0800, Mukhsein Johari wrote:
> > > a python programmer and enthusiast is a "pythonista", a zope enthusiast is a 
> > > "zopista"...what's a twisted enthusiast? "twista"?
> 
> > "Twista" is fun in that it can be claimed to be derived from either:
> > 1) A not too unusual pronouciation of "Twister". A twister, being litealy
> > one-who-twists, is one of the people that "twist" python to produce
> > "Twisted Python".
> 
> Being the semi-official "Twista"-who-corrects-usage-of-the-old-Twisted-name, I
> must inform you that Twisted is no longe "Twisted Python", but simply
> "Twisted".

...and to reflect that, the Debian package has been renamed from
'twisted' to 'python-twisted-*' :)

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