ANN: WebStack 1.0 released

[Paul Boddie]

WebStack 1.0 has finally been released!

What is it?
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>From the introductory text: WebStack is a package which provides a
simple, common API for Python Web applications, allowing such
applications to run within many different environments with virtually
no changes to application code.

In other words, it's a Python package which provides classes for Web
programming to applications and higher-level frameworks, but where you
get to deploy the same code regardless of whether you're running on
mod_python, CGI, Zope, Twisted or any of the other supported
environments.

Some people may find WebStack too low-level for writing applications;
this is intentional - WebStack does not pretend to be a "full stack"
Web solution, but seeks to offer standardised functionality to such
solutions.

How did it come about?
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Once upon a time, the Web-SIG was formed to discuss possible standards
for Python Web programming. Early enthusiasm [1,2,3] failed to yield
much more than the now-famous PEP 333 [4,5], but building on surveys of
existing projects such as the "Python Web Frameworks Overview" [6],
WebStack 0.2 was released [7] partly to discover how different the APIs
and features of certain existing projects really were, whilst providing
a common API for them all.

Where can I get it?
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WebStack is available via the Python Package Index:

http://www.python.org/pypi/WebStack

(Packages for Ubuntu may be made available. Contributions of other
packages are welcome!)

Have fun with WebStack!

Paul

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2003-October/000003.html
[2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2003-October/000009.html
[3] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2003-November/000331.html
[4] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2003-December/000394.html
[5] http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0333.html
[6] http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/web_frameworks.html
[7] http://www.python.org/pypi?:action=display&name=WebStack&version=0.2