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- The *action-url-generator* special variable has been replaced by the compute-url, update-url and component dependency protocol.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).