Pylons

Some folks might not have time to follow the Pylons-discuss mail list, so this might be news to them, but I’m thrilled to announce that the Pylons and repoze.bfg web frameworks are merging.

Ok, I’ll admit it, overly ambitious blog post. So I’ll refine it a little now, this is intended mainly as my thoughts on why as a tool developer (one who makes tools/frameworks that other programmers then use), its a bad idea to implement extensible objects via developer subclassing.

Without further ado, I’m pleased to announced that Pylons 0.10b1 and 1.0b1 are now out. I have not put them on Cheeseshop to ensure they’re not downloaded accidentally. Upgrading / Installing I have updated upgrading instructions here: http://pylonshq.

Ian Bicking recently released a rather interesting package called toppcloud that aims to tackle what I see as a growing need for those of us deploying Python webapps. I was actually interested in easing my own deployment woes before I saw Ian’s announcement about his package, and was halfway through a rather hefty amount of research on automating server deployments with tools like Chef and Puppet, but toppcloud is a bit different.

Beaker 1.4 has now been released, and addresses several fairly important bugs. First, the full changelog: Fix bug with hmac on Python 2.4. Patch from toshio, closes ticket #2133 from the TurboGears2 Trac.

I've now updated the blog software powering my blog, which is very long overdue. In the past, this blog was run off Typo, which apparently now hosts their home site off the github (its moved a dozen times in the past 3+ years).

I'm pleased to announce after a rather lengthy release candidate period, that Pylons 0.9.7 is finally out. Pylons 0.9.7 brings a good amount of changes to Pylons from 0.9.6 while still retaining a fairly hefty amount of backwards compatibility to ensure a mostly painless upgrade.

The new PylonsHQ site has now launched! The new site is running on the latest Pylons 0.9.7 code-base backed by the CouchDB database. New features that have been added: Snippet repository Traceback posting Easier to read buildbot status page Trac user integration, so your login to the main PylonsHQ site is carried into Trac seamlessly Feeds for the various sections, including the new blog All new documentation using Sphinx OpenID registration and sign-up All PylonsHQ code open-sourced and available on BitBucket Unfortunately, we were unable to integrate the Wiki's auth, so that will still require a separate login for now.

At long last, we've finally launched the Stanford IPLC website that I've been working on for the past year. It's quite nice to finally have something out there that I can show people, though I know its definitely more of a niche area of interest, as not everyone is probably as interested in intellectual property litigation as I am.

I'll be giving a talk tonight about WSGI, making apps using it, and Pylons tonight in San Francisco. If you live in the Bay Area and have been wanting to learn more about some of the packages utilizing WSGI, as well as Pylons, RSVP soon as they'd like to get some numbers for food.