[Bese-devel] ANN: UCW-CORE is ready. The future is now!

[Thomas Elam]

Thanks, Drew!  I will definitely be watching and possibly using the new
versions
of UCW.  Having real releases should help the development.

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Drew Crampsie <drewc at tech.coop> wrote:

> Hey UCW users,
>
> For some time, http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/repos/ucw-core/ has
> held the new ucw repo, ucw-core. I've been using it in production for
> a full month, an besides a few minor issues, it works.
>
> And ... drum roll please, .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-., The beginnings of the
> manual are at
> http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/repos/ucw-core/manual/getting-started.txt
> .
>
> This is the base of what i eventually will release as UCW 0.9. I'd be
> interested in hearing reports of others porting their applications.
>
> UCW_AJAX USERS: i have made no effort to port the ucw_ajax components
> and behavior to -core. That said, it should be quite easy to do, and
> i'll help in whatever way i can. I'd love to see someone willing to
> maintain a ucw-ajax library, but it won't be in the core archive.
>
> Having said that the ucw release will include a lot more than core.
> the forms libraries, presentations etc all have a place in the
> tarball.
>
> UCW is now split into two packages ucw-core and ucw-standard (nicknamed
> UCW).
>
> UCW-CORE is the base RERL from ucw_ajax, stripped down to the basics.
> using -core one should easily be able to port ucw-ajax and ucw-dev
> applications.
>
>  UCW-STANDARD is a mostly-compatible ucw_dev implementation, built on
> the new core. There are a few differences from ucw_dev, of course:
>
> CALL and ANSWER are no longer macros, and the hidden SELF no longer
> needed. DEFACTION no longer requires a component as the first
> argument, and does not have the :ISOLATE functionality .. this is now
> done when creating an 'action' object.
>
> I'm sure there are a lot more differences, but i'll let you figure
> them out for yourself.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> drewc
>
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