> Date: 16 November 2009 2:54:17 PM
> Subject: repoze.bfg 1.1 released
> Reply-To: Plone Website Team <plone-webs...@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Source: Planet Plone
> Author: Plone Website Team <plone-webs...@lists.sourceforge.net>

> The second major release of the BFG web framework (aka  
> "repoze.bfg"), version 1.1, is now available.

> For a list of changes made since the 1.0 release, seehttp://docs.repoze.org/bfg/1.1/whatsnew-1.1.html
> .

> See http://bfg.repoze.org/for other general information about  
> repoze.bfg.

> BFG is a Python web framework based on WSGI. It is inspired by Zope,  
> Pylons, and Django.

> BFG contains moderate, incremental improvements to patterns found in  
> earlier-generation web frameworks. It tries to make real-world web  
> application development and deployment more fun, more predictable,  
> and more productive. To this end, BFG has the the following features:

> WSGI-based deployment: PasteDeploy and mod_wsgi compatible.
> Runs under Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6.
> Runs on UNIX, Windows, and Google App Engine.
> Full documentation coverage: no feature or API is undocumented.
> A comprehensive set of unit tests which performs 100% statement  
> coverage of the BFG codebase.
> Sparse resource utilization: BFG has a small memory footprint and  
> doesn't waste any CPU cycles.
> Doesn't have an unreasonable set of dependencies: "easy_install"-ing  
> repoze.bfg over broadband takes less than a minute.
> Quick startup: a typical BFG application starts up in about a second.
> Offers extremely fast XML/HTML and text templating via Chameleon (http://chameleon.repoze.org/
> ).
> Persistence-agnostic: use SQLAlchemy, "raw" SQL, ZODB, CouchDB,  
> filesystem files, LDAP, or anything else which suits a particular  
> application's needs.
> Provides a variety of starter project templates. Each template makes  
> it possible to quickly start developing a BFG application using a  
> particular application stack.
> Offers URL-to-code mapping like Django or Pylons' URL routingor like  
> Zope'sgraph traversal, or allows a combination of both routing and  
> traversal. This helps make it feel familiar to both Zope and Pylons  
> developers.
> Offers debugging modes for common development error conditions (for  
> example, when a view cannot be found, or when authorization is being  
> inappropriately granted or denied).
> Allows developers to organize their code however they see fit; the  
> framework is not opinionated about code structure.
> Allows developers to write code that is easily unit-testable. Avoids  
> using extraneous thread local data structures which hamper  
> testability. Provides helper APIs which make it easy to mock  
> framework components such as templates and views.
> Provides an optional declarative context-sensitive authorization  
> system. This system prevents or allows the execution of code based  
> on a comparison of credentials possessed by the requestor against  
> ACL information stored by a BFG application.
> Behavior of an an application built using BFG can be extended or  
> overridden arbitrarily by a third-party developer without any  
> modification to the original application's source code. This makes  
> BFG a good choice for building frameworks and other "extensible  
> applications".
> Zope and Plone developers will be comfortable with the terminology  
> and concepts used by BFG; they are almost all Zope-derived.
> Links

> Quick installation:

> easy_install -i http://dist.repoze.org/bfg/1.1/simplerepoze.bfg
> General support and information:

> http://bfg.repoze.org
> Tutorials

> http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/1.1/#tutorials
> Sample Applications

> http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/1.1/#sample-applications
> Detailed narrative and API documentation:

> http://docs.repoze.org/bfg/1.1
> Bug tracker:

> http://bfg.repoze.org/trac
> Maillist:

> http://lists.repoze.org/listinfo/repoze-dev
> IRC support:

> irc://irc.freenode.net#repoze
> repoze.bfg is developed primarily by Agendaless Consulting ( http://agendaless.com
> ) and a team of contributors. It is part of the more general Repoze  
> project (http://repoze.org). It is released under the BSD-like  
> license available fromhttp://repoze.org/license.html.

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