= Bitten BEEP Implementation =

Bitten uses BEEP (the “Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol”, [http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3080.html RFC 3080]) for [wiki:MasterSlaveProtocol communication between the build master and the build slaves].

A custom implementation of the protocol is used due to the lack of a mature and lightweight BEEP implementation for Python. The module that implements the BEEP protocol is [source:/trunk/bitten/util/beep.py bitten.util.beep].