Congrats Chris. Awesome! Regards, David
On 5-Jul-09, at 10:46 PM, Chris McDonough wrote: > Summary > ------- > > The first major release of the BFG web framework (aka "repoze.bfg"), > version 1.0, is available. See http://bfg.repoze.org/ for general > information about repoze.bfg. > > Details > ------- > > BFG is a Python web framework based on WSGI. It is inspired by Zope, > Pylons, and Django. It makes use of a number of Zope technologies > under the hood. > > BFG is developed as part of the more general Repoze project > (http://repoze.org). It is released under the BSD-like license > available from http://repoze.org/license.html . > > BFG version 1.0 represents one year of development effort. The first > release of BFG, version 0.1, was made in July of 2008. Since then, > roughly 80 pre-1.0 releases have been made. None of these pre-1.0 > releases explicitly promised any backwards compatibility with any > earlier release. > > Version 1.0, however, marks the first point at which the repoze.bfg > API has been "frozen". Future releases in the 1.X line guarantee > API-level backward compatibility with 1.0. A backwards > incompatibility with 1.0 at the API level in any future 1.X version > will be considered a bug. > > More Details > ------------ > > BFG contains moderate, incremental improvements to patterns found in > earlier-generation web frameworks. It tries to make real-world web > application development and deployment more fun, more predictable, and > more productive. To this end, BFG has the the following features: > > - WSGI-based deployment: PasteDeploy and mod_wsgi compatible. > > - Runs under Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6. > > - Runs on UNIX, Windows, and Google App Engine. > > - Full documentation coverage: no feature or API is undocumented. > > - A comprehensive set of unit tests. The repoze.bfg package contains > 11K lines of Python code. 8000 lines of that total line count is > unit test code that tests the remaining 3000 lines. > > - Sparse resource utilization: BFG has a small memory footprint and > doesn't waste any CPU cycles. > > - Doesn't have an unreasonable set of dependencies: "easy_install" > -ing repoze.bfg over broadband takes less than a minute. > > - Quick startup: a typical BFG application starts up in about a > second. > > - Offers extremely fast XML/HTML and text templating via Chameleon > (http://chameleon.repoze.org/). > > - Persistence-agnostic: use SQLAlchemy, "raw" SQL, ZODB, CouchDB, > filesystem files, LDAP, or anything else which suits a particular > application's needs. > > - Provides a variety of starter project templates. Each template > makes it possible to quickly start developing a BFG application > using a particular application stack. > > - Offers URL-to-code mapping like Django or Pylons' *URL routing* or > like Zope's *graph traversal*, or allows a combination of both > routing and traversal. This helps make it feel familiar to both > Zope and Pylons developers. > > - Offers debugging modes for common development error conditions (for > example, when a view cannot be found, or when authorization is being > inappropriately granted or denied). > > - Allows developers to organize their code however they see fit; the > framework is not opinionated about code structure. > > - Allows developers to write code that is easily unit-testable. > Avoids using thread local data structures which hamper testability. > Provides helper APIs which make it easy to mock framework components > such as templates and views. > > - Provides an optional declarative context-sensitive authorization > system. This system prevents or allows the execution of code based > on a comparison of credentials possessed by the requestor against > ACL information stored by a BFG application. > > - Behavior of an an application built using BFG can be extended or > overridden arbitrarily by a third-party developer without any > modification to the original application's source code. This makes > BFG a good choice for building frameworks and other "extensible > applications". > > - Zope and Plone developers will be comfortable with the terminology > and concepts used by BFG; they are almost all Zope-derived. > > Excruciating Details > -------------------- > > Quick installation: > > easy_install -i http://dist.repoze.org/bfg/current repoze.bfg > > General support and information: > > http://bfg.repoze.org > > Tutorials > > http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/current/#tutorials > > Sample Applications > > http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/current/#sample-applications > > Detailed narrative and API documentation: > > http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/current > > Bug tracker: > > http://bfg.repoze.org/trac > > Maillist: > > http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev > > IRC support: > > irc://irc.freenode.net#repoze > > repoze.bfg is developed primarily by Agendaless Consulting > (http://agendaless.com) and a team of contributors. > > Special thanks to these people, without whom this release would not > have been possible: > > Malthe Borch, Carlos de la Guardia, Chris Rossi, Shane Hathaway, Tom > Moroz, Yalan Teng, Jason Lantz, Todd Koym, Jessica Geist, Hanno > Schlichting, Reed O'Brien, Sebastien Douche, Ian Bicking, Jim Fulton, > Martijn Faassen, Ben Bangert, Fernando Correa Neto, YoungKing, Rob > Miller, Wichert Akkermann, David Pratt, Mark Ramm, and Chris Perkins. > _______________________________________________ > Repoze-dev mailing list > Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org > http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev _______________________________________________ Repoze-dev mailing list Repoze-dev@lists.repoze.org http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
