doc/announce.en.txt
author Philippe Pepiot <philippe.pepiot@logilab.fr>
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:27:39 +0100
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[schema] load schema from modules names instead of directories Introspect cubicweb, cubes and apphome using pkgutil to generate the full list of modules names for loading the schema. Keep historical behavior and check if source .py file exists if a module is found using python bytecode file (.pyc and .pyo) Loading schema from apphome require apphome to be present in sys.path and that "schema" module resolve to a file located in apphome. Update migraction tests to explicitely update sys.path when loading schema from different apps, use a contextmanager for this so it's more readable. Require updated logilab-common and yams

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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: 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
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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