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From: APN on 4 Jan 2010 12:52 Version 0.4 of Woof! has been released. What is Woof! ------------- Woof! - Web Oriented Object Framework - is an open-source, platform and server-independent, web application framework written in the Tcl programming language. It is intended to be easy to install and deploy, simple to understand and customize, and embeddable into other applications. Files ----- The download area is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/woof/files/ bowwow-VERSION.exe is a single file Windows executable with Woof, Tcl and a web server built in and no external dependencies. Just download and run. woof-VERSION.zip and woof-VERSION.tar.gz are source distributions for use with other web servers. Requirements ------------ See http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/system_requirements Woof! has been tested with Apache and IIS on Windows and Apache and Lighttpd on Linux (Ubuntu 8.10) Release Notes ------------- This is the third public release of Woof! and is intended to allow people to try out Woof! and provide early feedback. The API is stabilizing but still subject to change. Installation ------------ See http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/installation for install instructions. Upgrades are not yet supported. Full upgrades are not planned until the 0.5 release. Getting started --------------- See the Woof! Quick Start Guide at http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/quick_start. Useful URLs ----------- Home page - http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof_home Programming guide - http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/index Reference pages - http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/woof_manual.html SourceForge project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/woof Changes since V0.3 ------------------ There are many changes and enhancements to API's and functionality. Only the major ones are listed here. - Woof! application code is now run in a safe Tcl interpreter for security reasons. *INCOMPATIBILITY* If you are loading your own libraries, you may need to make some changes. See http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/interpreter and http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/loading_packages - More flexible control of mapping URL's to controllers (similar to routes in Rails or Pylons) See http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/url_dispatcher - Enhancements and changes to Woof! Template File format. In particular, controller variables now have to be explicitly brought into scope ( *INCOMPATIBILITY* ) Also, support for new %( %) code blocks. - Improved support for language-specific pages. See http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/localization - Greatly expanded documentation. See http://woof.magicsplat.com/woof-ug/_woof/docs/ug/index This is also available under URL _woof/docs/ug/index in your local Woof! installation. |