doc/announce.en.txt
author Denis Laxalde <denis.laxalde@logilab.fr>
Mon, 08 Apr 2019 11:24:53 +0200
branch3.26
changeset 12586 afafc8fd9a45
parent 11336 96b1dc702e92
child 12853 48e066c9655a
permissions -rw-r--r--
Account for new psycopg2 exception classes mapping From psycopg2 >= 2.8, specific exceptions are raised corresponding to postgresql errors. E.g. a CheckViolation exception is raised instead of a generic IntegrityError previously when a constraint violation occurs. The way we intercept database errors, especially for constraint violation, is not compliant with that because we do not catch subclasses of IntegrityError in native source's doexec() method. We fix this by checking for the presence of IntegrityError error in exception class's mro. This is still overcomplicated and clumsy, because we still use string comparison, but this is the best we can do as far as I know. (A better fix would be 'isinstance(ex, IntegrityError)' but we have no engine-independent error classes, so this is not possible. Something like sqlalchemy's DBAPI Errors [1] might help: https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/errors.html#dbapi-errors)

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

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

What is CubicWeb?
-----------------

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: https://www.cubicweb.org/
.. _overview: https://docs.cubicweb.org/tutorials/base/index.html
.. _forge: https://www.cubicweb.org/project?vtitle=All%20cubicweb%20projects
.. _installation: https://docs.cubicweb.org/book/admin/setup.html#setupenv

Home page
---------

http://www.cubicweb.org/

Download
--------

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

Mailing list
------------

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