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- The *action-url-generator* special variable has been replaced by the compute-url, update-url and component dependency protocol.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