doc/announce.en.txt
author Sylvain Thénault <sylvain.thenault@logilab.fr>
Tue, 21 Jan 2014 17:34:31 +0100
changeset 9445 65d93a4fd11c
parent 314 a93da6d88d4e
child 11336 96b1dc702e92
permissions -rw-r--r--
[multi-sources-removal] Drop pyrorql and zmqrql sources After a few years experementing "true" multi-sources, we're now moving to "copy-based" source à la datafeed. As pyro and zmq sources have no more known customers and the related code is in the way of future refactoring of cubicweb's core, we decided to drop support for those sources without backward compatibility. If you're still using a zmqrql or pyrorql source and you want to upgrade, ask support to move it to datafeed using a pre-3.19 version first. Related to #2919300 (first step)

.. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

The development team is pleased to announce the 3.0.0 release of CubicWeb, also
know as ShowTime.

What is CubicWeb?
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With 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.

Its main features are:

    * an engine driven by the explicit data model of the application,
    * a query language named RQL similar to W3C’s SPARQL,
    * a selection+view mechanism for semi-automatic XHTML/XML/JSON/text generation,
    * a library of reusable components (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.

Being built since 2000 by an R&D project still going on today, 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.

The unbeliever will read the quick overview_ of CubicWeb.

The hacker will join development at the forge_.

The impatient will move right away to installation_ and set-up of a CubicWeb
environment.

.. _cubicweb: http://www.cubicweb.org/
.. _overview: http://www.cubicweb.org/doc/en/A020-tutorial.en.html#overview
.. _forge: http://www.cubicweb.org/project?vtitle=All%20cubicweb%20projects
.. _installation: http://www.cubicweb.org/doc/en/C010-setup.en.html#miseenplaceenv

Home page
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http://www.cubicweb.org/

Download
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http://ftp.logilab.org/pub/cubicweb/

Mailing list
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http://lists.cubicweb.org/mailman/listinfo/cubicweb