doc/index.rst
author Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@logilab.fr>
Thu, 02 Jun 2016 09:41:24 +0200
changeset 11285 581b5b64b382
parent 10503 209738650200
child 11631 faf279e33298
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[tox] Put development dependencies into a dev-requirements.txt file The latter being sourced in tox.ini. For now this contains references to hg repositories for some dependencies but under normal circumstances it should only contain pytest. This is useful when developping cubicweb itself without using tox but working with a virtualenv so that one can simply do: :: $ virtualenv --system-site-packages venv $ . venv/bin/activate $ pip install -r dev-requirements.txt $ python setup.py develop

=====================================================
|cubicweb| - The Semantic Web is a construction game!
=====================================================

|cubicweb| is a semantic web application framework, licensed under the LGPL,
that empowers developers to efficiently build web applications by reusing
components (called `cubes`) and following the well known object-oriented design
principles.

Main Features
~~~~~~~~~~~~~

* an engine driven by the explicit :ref:`data model
  <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationDataModel>` of the application,

* a query language named :ref:`RQL <RQL>` similar to W3C's SPARQL,

* a :ref:`selection+view <TutosBaseCustomizingTheApplicationCustomViews>`
  mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,

* a library of reusable :ref:`components <Cube>` (data model and views) that
  fulfill common needs,

* the power and flexibility of the Python_ programming language,

* the reliability of SQL databases, LDAP directories, Subversion and Mercurial
  for storage backends.

Built since 2000 from an R&D effort still continued, supporting 100,000s of
daily visits at some production sites, |cubicweb| is a proven end to end solution
for semantic web application development that promotes quality, reusability and
efficiency.

QuickStart
~~~~~~~~~~

The impatient developer will move right away to :ref:`SetUpEnv` then to :ref:`ConfigEnv`.

Social
~~~~~~

*   Chat on the `jabber forum`_
*   Discuss on the `mailing-list`_
*   Discover on the `blog`_
*   Contribute on the forge_


.. _Logilab: http://www.logilab.fr/
.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project/
.. _Python: http://www.python.org/
.. _`jabber forum`: http://www.logilab.org/blogentry/6718
.. _`mailing-list`: http://lists.cubicweb.org/mailman/listinfo/cubicweb
.. _blog: http://www.cubicweb.org/blog/1238


Narrative Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A.k.a. "The Book"

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   book/intro/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   tutorials/index
   
.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   book/devrepo/index
   book/devweb/index

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   book/admin/index
   book/additionnal_services/index
   book/annexes/index



Changes
~~~~~~~

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   changes/changelog


Reference documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

API
'''

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :glob:

    api/*

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1

    js_api/index

Developpers
~~~~~~~~~~~

.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
    :glob:

    dev/*

Indexes
~~~~~~~

* the :ref:`genindex`,
* the :ref:`modindex`,