CppCMS 0.0.2 Released!

After long period of development CppCMS 0.0.2 was released!

• Downloads
• Documentation --- (not 100% complete yet).
• Installation Instructions

It includes following components:

• CppCMS Web Development Framework.
• DbiXX Database independent SQL library.
• WikiPP -- CppCMS powered wiki engine.
• Examples -- a set of various examples of using CppCMS.

Policy Changes

There are important release policy changes:

• Beta versions are available to public via svn on trunk branch.
• The frequency of releases is expected to grow, instead of long development periods inside trunk.
• Most of CppCMS architecture is stabilized, however API is still subject to change.
• No full backward compatibility for future releases is granted, however, preserving backward compatibility and stabilizing API are important goals of future development.

Major Changes

• New, statically typed template system was introduced. It is based on compilation of templates to native, dynamically loadable shared objects.
• Old, dynamic typed template system had deprecated and not supported any more

• Various enhancements to template system where introduced like:

  1. Powerful "Django style" templates inheritance
  2. Extending templates using direct injection of C++ code to templates.
  3. Templates are integral part of CppCMS project and not additional library.

• Introduced form processing and validation sub-framework deeply integrated with templates system.

• Introduced powerful, scalable session management system.
• Improved cache API for better supporting non-trigger based caching.
• Documentation had moved to CppCMS powered Wiki -- WikiPP
• FreeBSD and OpenSolaris are supported in addition to Linux and Cygwin.
• CppCMS powered Wiki software -- WikiPP was released under GPLv3.

Pages

• About This Project
• My Open Source Astronomy Projects

Categories

• Progress
• Storage
• Benchmarks
• Templates
• FastCGI
• Framework
• Cache
• Berkeley DB
• Comet
• Unicode and Localization
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