Thread: [PythonWeb.org] Is Bricks available yet?

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I was reading through the mailing list archives and saw the post about
Bricks, is that available to test out yet?

Thanks,

Wayne

Hi All,

> I was reading through the mailing list archives and saw the post about
> Bricks, is that available to test out yet?

Bricks isn't available yet but hopefully will be within the next month.

I thought I might as well give you all an update on the other projects
too:

I've now split the current pythonweb project into the following
sub-projects and re-factored all the code accordingly. 

The new modules will work with the easy install system from
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall so that they can be
installed as follows with the dependencies automatically installed too:

> easy_install.py web

Pretty simple eh?

The modules are:

bricks - full WSGI framework taking a similar approach to ruby on rails
         for rapidly developing web applications

database - formally web.database for portable/simplified database access

engine - formally SnakeSQL - now a toolkit to write your own SQL engine 
         too.

model - formally database.object, an object-relational mapper

serve - classes for writing servers with

web - same as before without all the external packages included

All the modules are currently in an SVN repository and the documentation
and distribution files get correctly built using makefiles. All the new
modules work correctly together and still support Python 2.2.

Still to do:

* Write sensible documentation for the packages now they are standalone
* Restructure the pythonweb.org website for the new modules

I hope to have a pre-release of all the modules except Bricks at the end
of next week. The code of the pre-releases is unlikely to change much
before the final 0.6 releases but the documentation, tests and examples
will.

I hope to have a release of Bricks in early August. Bricks will be
Python 2.4 and above only because it will use decorators. I am currently
improving Ajax support (which already works) and will be using it for a
commercial project over the next few weeks which will mean it gets
developed quickly. 

If anyone is really keen I can provide an SVN snapshot so you can take a
peak?

Once I've got all the 0.6 modules released I'd really like to open up
the source a bit more and give more people access so improvements/bug
reports etc don't all have to come through me. I'll pretty much have
implemented everything I would like to see in the modules by then and am
more than happy for the project to take a new/better course with more
people involved.

Hope to have something to show you all soon anyway.

Cheers,

James

Hi All,

I'm pleased to announce a new release of the web modules, well sort of! 
I've written a document about where we were and where I'd like to go:

http://www.pythonweb.org/doc/pythonweb/

So far I've split all the code up into different modules and released 
them in the eggs format (described in the link above) and also made a 
SVN snapshot of all the code:

http://www.pythonweb.org/doc/pythonweb/release/
http://www.pythonweb.org/snapshot/

I'm hoping to document them all over the next few weeks using a new 
documentation format named pigeon where the documentation is written as 
part of the code itself so hopefully it will be easier to keep the 
documentation up to date. Examples here:

http://www.pythonweb.org/doc/ (looks like I can't spell pigeon on the 
front screen.. oops)
http://www.pythonweb.org/doc/web.doc.html (web module specific code)

There is a lot of work to do documenting everything before it can really 
be used so please consider everything Alpha until the documentation is 
finished. If you would like to use the new code one important change is 
that import web does not automatically load the web.cgi variable because 
doing so reads POST information. POST information can only be read once 
and you might choose to import web for a reason other than reading POST 
data and then not be able to use access it later (it was a problem I had 
when writing Bricks). To load CGI information you must now do:

import web
web.loadCGI()

then everything works as before.

Finally I've made the first release of Bricks. There is some 
documentation and a brief tutorial here:

http://www.pythonweb.org/bricks/

Bricks is actually being used in a production site with mod_fastcgi 
here: http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com The site fetches XML feeds from 
Amazon which significantly slows performance but it gives you an idea.

All the best,

James

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