billiard is a fork of the Python 2.7 multiprocessing package. The
multiprocessing package itself is a renamed and updated version of R Oudkerk's
pyprocessing package. This standalone variant is intended to be compatible with
Python 2.4 and 2.5, and will draw it's fixes/improvements from python-trunk.

 * Also it is a fork of the multiprocessin backport package by Christian Heims;
 * It includes the no-execv patch contributed by R. Oudkerk;
 * And the Pool improvements previously located in Celery;

Homepage:
https://github.com/celery/billiard
