Hi folks, I tried this announcement on some easy going lists yesterday and no one has taken me to the woodshed yet, so I thought I'd have a go at a tougher crowd.
I'm releasing a WSGI component suite called WHIFF and I'd just love it if you folks would have a look and comment/suggest/criticize/complain. If you'd like to try it out -- even better. Please go http://whiff.sourceforge.net Or use one of the links in the announcement below. Thanks -- Aaron Watters === THIS .SIG IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK === WHIFF -- WSGI/HTTP INTEGRATED FILESYSTEM FRAMES WHIFF is an infrastructure for easily building complex Python/WSGI Web applications by combining smaller and simpler WSGI components organized within file system trees. To DOWNLOAD WHIFF go to the WHIFF project information page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/whiff and follow the download instructions. To GET THE LATEST WHIFF clone the WHIFF Mercurial repository located at http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/cgi-bin/whiffRepo.cgi. To READ ABOUT WHIFF view the WHIFF documentation at http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W.intro. To PLAY WITH WHIFF try the demos listed in the demos page at http://aaron.oirt.rutgers.edu/myapp/docs/W1300.testAndDemo. Why WHIFF? ========== WHIFF (WSGI HTTP Integrated Filesystem Frames) is intended to make it easier to create, deploy, and maintain large and complex Python based WSGI Web applications. I created WHIFF to address complexity issues I encounter when creating and fixing sophisticated Web applications which include complex database interactions and dynamic features such as AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). The primary tools which reduce complexity are an infrastructure for managing web application name spaces, a configuration template language for wiring named components into an application, and an applications programmer interface for accessing named components from Python and javascript modules. All supporting conventions and tools offered by WHIFF are optional. WHIFF is designed to work well with other modules conformant to the WSGI (Web Service Gateway Interface) standard. Developers and designers are free to use those WHIFF tools that work for them and ignore or replace the others. WHIFF does not provide a "packaged cake mix" for baking a web application. Instead WHIFF is designed to provide a set of ingredients which can be easily combined to make web applications (with no need to refine your own sugar or mill your own wheat). I hope you like it. -- Aaron Watters _______________________________________________ Web-SIG mailing list Web-SIG@python.org Web SIG: http://www.python.org/sigs/web-sig Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/web-sig/archive%40mail-archive.com
