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[Bese-announce] UCW 0.3.9 - learning to spel
by Marco Baringer 09 May '05

09 May '05

-*- outline -*- UnCommon Web version 0.3.9 - "learning to spel" Released 2005-05-09 This release: improves the documentation; adds a completely new back-end; adds multi-threading support to the mod_lisp back-end; provides a large number of bug fixes and minor improvements. * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.9.tar.gz ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.9.tar.bz2 * Changes (since 0.3.7) - rfc2388 and iterate are no longer included in distribution tarballs but must be downloaded separately. UCW, unless the araneida backend is used, now depends on PURI (puri.b9.com) ** System - All the scripts and lisp files required for starting and stopping UCW are now in the bin directory. The unused file src/bin.lisp has been removed. - The default log level has been turned down to avoid uninformative messages being constantly written to the console. ** RERL - The Content-Type header is explicitly set in the standard-server's handle-request method. - HTTP headers are now always passed as strings. Automatic keyword->string conversion has been eliminated. - The DEFAPPLICATION macro has been removed. In its place we now must explicitly create the application object and register is with the server at the appropiate times. ** Components - New REDIRECT component. - New convenience macro initialize-container. - *debug-on-error* and *inspect-components* are now exported from the UCW package. ** Back-ends - All back-ends now use the ucw.backend logger, this is much simpler than having each backend have its own logger. - The mod_lisp backend now supports parsing mime encoded POST data. The current API is not definitive and will change in the near future. - mod_lisp backend now support multiple worker threads. - Added httpd backend. ** YACLML/TAL - <ucw:select :multiple t now works as expected. - New convenience tags <ucw:text, <ucw:password and <ucw:submit. - :action attribute now allowed on regular A and INPUT tags in TAL files. - Fix spelling error in yaclml, enviroment is now consistently spelt correctly. ** Documentation - Added the wiki example. - Improved user's manual. -- -Marco Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget the perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

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[Bese-announce] UnCommon Web version 0.3.8 - "learning to climb up ice"
by Marco Baringer 03 May '05

03 May '05

UnCommon Web version 0.3.8 - "learning to climb up ice" Released 2005-05-03 This release: improves the documentation; adds a completely new back-end; adds multi-threading support to the mod_lisp back-end; provides a large number of bug fixes and minor improvements. * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.8.tar.gz ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.8.tar.bz2 * Changes (since 0.3.7) ** System - UCW will now attempt to load asdf system definitions manually if asdf:*central-registry* isn't properly configured. This should make it easier for lisp newbies to start with UCW. - All the scripts and lisp files required for starting and stopping UCW are now in the bin directory. The unused file src/bin.lisp has been removed. - The default log level has been turned down to avoid uninformative messages being constantly written to the console. ** RERL - The Content-Type header is explicitly set in the standard-server's handle-request method. - HTTP headers are now always passed as strings. Automatic keyword->string conversion has been eliminated. ** Components - New REDIRECT component. - New convenience macro initialize-container. - *debug-on-error* and *inspect-components* are now exported from the UCW package. ** Back-ends - All back-ends now use the ucw.backend logger, this is much simpler than having each backend have its own logger. - The mod_lisp backend now supports parsing mime encoded POST data. The current API is not definitive and will change in the near future. - mod_lisp backend now support multiple worker threads. - Added httpd backend. ** YACLML/TAL - <ucw:select :multiple t now works as expected. - New convenience tags <ucw:text, <ucw:password and <ucw:submit. - :action attribute now allowed on regular A and INPUT tags in TAL files. ** Documentation - Added the wiki example. - Improved users manual. -- -Marco Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget the perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

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[Bese-announce] UCW 0.3.7
by Marco Baringer 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

UnCommon Web version 0.3.7 Released 2005-02-28 * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.7.tar.gz * Changes (since 0.3.6) - The defapplication macro has beet rewritten to allow revaluation of the form without eliminating all the application's sessions, entry-points, etc. This makes (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :my-application) a valid mechanism for upgrading live apps even when asdf:load-op causes the defapplication form to be reevaluated. ** Components - Web presentations. See src/components/presentations.lisp) for details. - New TASK component. - New completing-text-field component. - *inspect-components* now defaults to T. - REDIRECT is now exported from the UCW package. -- -Marco Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget the perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

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[Bese-announce] UCW 0.3.6
by Marco Baringer 08 Feb '05

08 Feb '05

UnCommon Web version 0.3.6 Released 2005-02-08 * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.6.tar.gz * Changes (since 0.3.4) ** Components - Values passed to :component slot argument are now evaluated when the value is a list. This eliminates the need for many of the trivial initialize-instance :after methods. - A young but stable and fully functioning HTML FORM component collection has been added. - The defcomponent macro has been reintroduced (though it is obviously much simpler than it once was). - New component dependency protocol. - The *action-url-generator* special variable has been replaced by the compute-url, update-url and component dependency protocol. - New REDIRECT component for sending HTTP redirect headers. - New TASK component. - Fixed and improved error-component component. ** Component Rendering - Component rendering error handling has been improved. ** Actions - New :isolate actions. ** TAL/YACLML - Fixed handling of <ucw:input :type "checkbox" tags. - Added <ucw:button tag ** RERL - The URLs associated with entry-points are now registered with the backend individually (instead of registering an entire directory as was done previously). ** Documentation - Minor improvements to docs strings, manual and comments in example code. - Many typos have been corrected. ** Backends - The port for the aserve backend can now be set when creating the backend object, this avoids having to conditionalize the (supposedly) backend independant startup-server form. - The mod_lisp backend now properly supports generating multiple headers in HTTP responses. - New araneida backend. ** Other - Added support for CLISP and Allegro Common Lisp. - The CPS transformer can now allert the user to possible order-of-evaluation bugs. * Prerequisites ** Prerequisites included in the distribution - arnesi - yaclml - cl-icu - iterate - mod_lisp ** Prerequisites you must download and install manually - a recent CVS version of SLIME. You must have the new inspector for the ucw-inspector to work. - portableaserve 1.2.35 should you want the aserve backend. - apache (1.x or 2.x) should you want to use the mod_lisp backend. - araneida 0.9 should you want to use the araneida backend. * Known Issues - Application dumping does not currently work (and will probably be removed in the near future). * Supported Platforms Using the mod_lisp backend UCW is known to work on OpenMCL (darwin), CMUCL (linux-x86), SBCL (linux-x86). Using the aserve backend UCW is known to work on SBCL (linux-x86) and Allegro (windows). Using the araneida backend UCW is know to work on OpenMCL (darwin), CMUCL (linux-x86), SBCL (linux-x86) and CLISP (windows). -- -Marco Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget the perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

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[Bese-announce] [ANN] UnCommon Web 0.3.5
by Marco Baringer 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

UnCommon Web version 0.3.5 Released 2005-02-03 * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.5.tar.gz * Changes (since 0.3.4) ** Components - Values passed to :component slot argument are now evaluated when the value is a list. This eliminates the need for many of the trivial initialize-instance :after methods. - A young but stable and fully functioning HTML FORM component collection has been added. - The defcomponent macro has been reintroduced (though it is obviously much simpler than it once was). - New component dependency protocol. - The *action-url-generator* special variable has been replaced by the compute-url, update-url and component dependency protocol. - New REDIRECT component for sending HTTP redirect headers. ** Component Rendering - Component rendering error handling has been improved. ** TAL/YACLML - Fixed handling of <ucw:input :type "checkbox" tags. ** RERL - The URLs associated with entry-points are now registered with the backend individually (instead of registering an entire directory as was done previously). ** Documentation - Minor improvements to docs strings, manual and comments in example code. ** Backends - The port for the aserve backend can now be set when creating the backend object, this avoids having to conditionalize the (supposedly) backend independant startup-server form. - The mod_lisp backend now properly supports generating multiple headers in HTTP responses. - New araneida backend. ** Other - Added support for CLISP and Allegro Common Lisp. - The CPS transformer can now allert the user to possible order-of-evaluation bugs. * Prerequisites ** Prerequisites included in the distribution - arnesi - yaclml - cl-icu - iterate - mod_lisp ** Prerequisites you must download and install manually - a recent CVS version of SLIME. You must have the new inspector for the ucw-inspector to work. - portableaserve 1.2.35 should you want the aserve backend. * Known Issues - Application dumping does not currently work (and will probably be removed in the near future). * Supported Platforms Using the mod_lisp backend UCW is known to work on OpenMCL (darwin), CMUCL (darwin and x86), SBCL (darwin and x86), CLISP (darwin). Using the aserve backend UCW is known to work on OpenMCL (darwin), SBCL (x86) and Allegro (windows). Using the araneida backend UCW is know to work on OpenMCL (darwin) and CLISP (windows). happy hacking! -- -Marco Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget the perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

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[Bese-announce] UCW 0.3.4 - learning to climb up trees
by Marco Baringer 07 Dec '04

07 Dec '04

UnCommon Web version 0.3.4 - learning to climb up trees Released 2004-12-07 * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.4.tar.gz * Prerequisites ** Prerequisites included in the distribution - arnesi - yaclml - cl-icu - iterate - mod_lisp ** Prerequisites you must download and install manually - a recent CVS version of SLIME. You must have the new inspector for the ucw-inspector to work. - portableaserve 1.2.35 should you want the aserve backend. * Changes (since 0.3.3) * Components - A new class, simple-window-component, provides the convience render-on method and slots. The window-component class is now used for call/answer logic only. Previously these two jobs were both handled by the window-component class, this made template based window-components impossible. - window-component now properly deals with the case where it _does_ have a calling component. This makes call'ing window-components from regular actions meaningfull. - range-view component has new cleaner api. variosu bugs and off-by-one errors have been fixed. * Component Rendering - User errors during the rendering phase are now properly dealt with (iow they don't cause an internal server error). - *print-level*, *print-length* and now set to low values when printing the backtrace (this avoids 500Kb backtrace pages). The entire data structure is still availabe by inspecting the objects. - template-component-environment now uses nconc method combination. * Component Control Flow - CALL and ANSWER can now be used in defentry-point with the "expected" semantics. The only restriction is that the called components must be subclasse of window-component. * RERL - session frames are now stored in a hash table and are never removed. this change is required to support window cloning (whethere this change should be appiled globally or a sub class of standard-session-frame should be created is still up for debate). - Errors during find-application now show an error page instead of killing the server. * Other - Created a new ucwctl script which, once properly edited for the site, can be used in /etc/init.d to control a ucw server. - UCW now loads the init.lisp file. This provides a convient place to put site specific startup code. - Obselete method definitions in the example app have been removed. - A tla config has been added to the libs directory which makes getting arnesi et al. easier. - A good deal of work has gone into the manual. * Known Issues - The transaction example does not work. - CMUCL and SBCL have a bug in the handling of :default-initargs, which UCW makes heavy use of. * Supported Platforms OpenMCL and CMUCL (with mod_lisp) backend have been tested throughly. SBCL and mod_lisp have been tested lightly. aserver backend has not been tested. -- -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

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[Bese-announce] UCW 0.3.3 - learning to climb up bookshelves (for real)
by Marco Baringer 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ UnCommon Web version 0.3.3 - learning to climb up bookshelves (for real) Released 2004-11-10 [nb: This release exists simply to fix a number of minor (but fatal) bugs in the 0.3.2 release] [nb: this release breaks backwards compatibility] * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.3.tar.gz * Prerequisites ** Prerequisites included in the distribution - arnesi - yaclml - cl-icu - iterate - mod_lisp ** Prerequisites you must download and install manually - a recent CVS version of SLIME. You must have the new inspector for the ucw-inspector to work. - portableaserve 1.2.35 should you want the aserve backend. * Changes (since 0.3.2) ** "The API has changed" fixes - Fix various uses of <ucw:a which didn't use the :action attribute. - Fix wrong environment name in admin repl template ** Components - New component simple-container - root-component renamed to window-component - Remove GOTO and REPLACE macros (and the underlying goto-component and replace-component methods). Use (setf context.window-component) instead (passing it a component instance). ** YACLML - Support :href attribute an <ucw:a tags with URL rewriting to add the session id. ** RERL - Move *debug-on-error* logic out of the handle-request-error's :around method and into the standard-server's handle-request method. - Improved the handling of errors during actions, callbacks and rerl internal functions. * Known Issues - The transaction example does not work. * Supported Platforms SBCL and OpenMCL are known to work on PPC with the mod_lisp backend. CMUCL is known to work on x86 with mod_lisp backend (apache2). The aserve backend is not known to work (it might, it just hasn't been tested). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ have fun (i know i do), -- -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

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[Bese-announce] UCW 0.3.2
by Marco Baringer 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

UnCommonWeb version 0.3.2 - learning to climb up bookshelves Released 2004-11-06 [nb: this release breaks backwards compatability] * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.2.tar.gz NB: This tarball contains ucw, arnesi, yaclml, cl-icu, iterate and mod_lisp. You'll need to install a recent CVS version of SLIME and portableaserve 1.2.35. * Changes (since 0.3.1) [in no particular order] - A new component class hierarchy (and associated API) has been introduced. UCW now distinguishes between window component and widget components and provides better support for both. - The untested, buggy and empty documentation application has been removed. - The user's manual has been updated, improved and rewritten in LaTeX. - The yaclml tags <ucw:form and <ucw:a now require an :action attribute. - Two generic actions (ok and refresh-component) have been implementod. - The session.value API has been improved. - standard-application's entry-point table is now implemented as a hash-table, this greatly improves support for sites with many entry points. - A new component class (container) has been added. It provides support for implementing components which manage other components. The container component defines various convience methods which simplyify the initialization and manipulation of sub components. - The UCW inspector directly uses SLIME's inspector and produces similar output. The backtrack error pages now have inspector links. (as they did in UCW 0.1). Inspector anchors no longer pretty print the object. - the render-on defgeneric has been moved into the protocol file where it should have been all along. - render-on uses wrapping-standard method combination. - The standard-component file has been split into multilpe files. - Fixed mod_lisp's response object wiping * Supported Platforms SBCL and CMUCL have problems with :default-initargs (which UCW makes wide use of) but otherwise work fine. OpenMCL has no known issues. mod_lisp backend has been tested with all implementations, aserver backend has not been tested. -- -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

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[Bese-announce] ucw 0.3.1
by marco 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

UnCommonWeb version 0.3.1 - learning to climb over couches Released 2004-10-16 [nb: this release violently breaks backwards compatability] * Home page http://common-lisp.net/project/ucw/ * Download ftp://ftp.common-lisp.net/pub/project/ucw/ucw_0.3.1.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 0.3.0) - Optional cookie based session tracking. * Changes (since 0.3.0) ** Components - MOP based component implementation. - Improved template-component API. - More robust dump-application implementation. ** RERL - Various methods for abstracting access to parts of the request were implemented and used. - Distinciton between standard-session-frame and first-session-frame eliminated. ** TAL - Fix :on-change attribute. * Bugs - many were fixed, many were probably introduced. caveat emptor. -- -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

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[Bese-announce] arnesi 1.2.3
by Marco Baringer 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

arnesi 1.2.3 Released 2004-10-16 * Changes since 1.2.2 - Added CLISP support for MOPP package. - Many more doc strings. -- -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

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