ANNOUNCE: Quixote 0.4.3

[Greg Ward]

Quixote 0.4.3 is now available for download from:
  http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/

Quixote is yet another framework for developing Web applications in
Python.  The design goals were:

  1) To allow easy development of Web applications where the
     accent is more on complicated programming logic than
     complicated templating.

  2) To make the templating language as similar to Python as possible,
     in both syntax and semantics.  The aim is to make as many of the
     skills and structural techniques used in writing regular Python
     code applicable to Web applications built using Quixote.

  3) No magic.  When it's not obvious what to do in
     a certain case, Quixote refuses to guess.

If you view a web site as a program, and web pages as subroutines,
Quixote just might be the tool for you.  If you view a web site as a
graphic design showcase, and each web page as an individual work of art,
Quixote is probably not what you're looking for.

Quixote was primarily written by Andrew Kuchling, Neil Schemenauer, and
Greg Ward: {amk,nas,gward}@mems-exchange.org.  Support for Quixote
is available on the quixote-users@mems-exchange.org mailing list.


CHANGES in Quixote 0.4.3
------------------------

  * Removed the URL_PREFIX configuration variable; it's not actually
    needed anywhere, and caused some user confusion.

  * Added FORM_TOKENS configuration variable to enable/disable
    unique form identifiers.  (These are useful as a measure against
    cross-site request forgery [CSRF] attacks, but disabled by default
    because some form of persistent session management is required,
    which is not currently included with Quixote.)

  * Added demonstration and documentation for the widget classes
    (the first part of the Quixote Form Library).

  * Added HTTPResponse.set_content_type() method.

  * Fixed some minor bugs in the widget library.

  * Fixed to work with Python 2.2.

  * Greatly reduced the set of symbols imported by
    "from quixote import *" -- it's useful for interactive sessions.

-- 
Greg Ward - software developer                gward@mems-exchange.org
MEMS Exchange                            http://www.mems-exchange.org