doc/index.rst
author Philippe Pepiot <philippe.pepiot@logilab.fr>
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 15:27:39 +0100
changeset 11899 bf6106b91633
parent 11631 faf279e33298
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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

=====================================================
|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
   book/pyramid/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`,