durusmail: quixote-users: ANN: Quixote 0.2 released
ANN: Quixote 0.2 released
2001-01-16
ANN: Quixote 0.2 released
Chuck Esterbrook
2001-01-16
You might wish to mention in both your announcement and your web page what
version of Python is required.

-Chuck


At 04:29 PM 1/16/2001 -0500, Andrew Kuchling wrote:
>Version 0.2 of the Quixote Web development toolkit is now available.
>Quixote uses Python package to store all the code and HTML for a
>Web-based application.  PTL, Python Template Language, is used to mix
>HTML with Python code; the basic syntax looks just like Python, but
>expressions are converted to strings and appended to the output.
>
>Notable changes in this version are: handler methods are now passed a
>single 'request' object, and not a request,response pair; added a
>config parser, so that Individual Quixote applications can have their
>own configuration settings; the session management has been
>overhauled; PTL modules can now have docstrings; and other various
>minor bug fixes and enhancements.
>
>Some of these changes, especially the first one, are incompatible with
>the previously released version, so existing code will have to be
>rewritten to work with this version.
>
>The Quixote home page is at:
>         http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/python/quixote/
>
>The code can be downloaded from:
>         http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/files/quixote/
>
>Thanks to Neil Schemenauer, who did most of the packaging of this
>release, and to the various developers at the MEMS Exchange who've
>contributed to this release.
>
>--amk



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