[Twisted-Python] [INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE] Removal of twisted.manhole and twisted.spread.ui

[Amber "Hawkie" Brown]

As part of some spring cleaning, I'm removing two of the largest sections of unmaintained, undocumented, and mostly untested code in Twisted. These are twisted.manhole (not twisted.conch.manhole, which is over SSH/telnet; twisted.manhole is over PB) and twisted.spread.ui (a GTK interface + some other things that are similar in purpose, which also depends on twisted.manhole). They are both broken and not very useful in their current form; and any improvements would require an almost complete rewrite, meaning that there's little to no chance that they are worth keeping.

As per the compatibility policy, these two branches are available for you to test your applications with:

- https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8329 -- removing twisted.spread.ui
- https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/8330 -- removing twisted.manhole

The git branches are available on the Trac links. They will be available for a week from now before the minimum merge time, as per the policy, for you to test your applications.

- Amber
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