From mb at bese.it  Thu Sep 23 22:23:20 2004
From: mb at bese.it (Marco Baringer)
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:23:20 +0200
Subject: [Bese-announce] UnCommon Web 0.3.0 - learning to crawl
Message-ID: <m2vfe4r5ev.fsf@bese.it>


UnCommonWeb version 0.3.0 - learning to climb
Released 2004-09-23

* Home page

http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/

* Download

ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.0.tar.gz

NB: This tarball contains ucw, arnesi, yaclml and cl-icu. You'll need
to install a recent CVS version of SLIME and portableaserve 1.2.35
(mod_lisp is included in the libs/ directory).

* New Features (since 0.2)

- UCW package exports the public interface. New UCW-USER package.

- Cross action continuations now work as expected.

- Gracefully (and programmatically) deal with requests for expired
  sessions.

** Components

- Improved range-view API.

- Simple date-picker component

- Allow component threads and manipulation of component places.

** YACLML/TAL

- Improved form handling.

- All TAL extensions are accessable as yaclml macros.

- <ucw:option tags contain real lisp objects as values.

- Convience tags (and yaclml macros) for form handling.

- Improved TAL environment manipulation.

** mod_lisp

- Upgrade "official" mod_lisp to 2.38

** aserve

- Improved URL handling.

* Documentation

- Most public functions, macros and classes now have doc strings.

- UCW document application provides a 30% complete manual.

* Portability

- Tested regularly on CMUCL (linux x86), SBCL (linux x86) and OpenMCL
  (darwin ppc) with mod_lisp backend. Tested occasianly on OpenMCL
  (darwin ppc) with portableaserve backend.

* Bugs

- many were fixed, many were probably introduced. caveat emptor.

* Note

I kept holding off UCW 0.3 until i'd written the docs. I kept holding
off that until i'd written a concordia like document system. This
release could have been made quite a while ago had I been more
realistic.

Now I'm going to try and put as much information in doc strings
(except high level over view stuff) as possible and hope the developer
has a recent enough SLIME which makes this information easily
accessable.

-- 
-Marco
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.
     -Leonard Cohen