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notmm 0.4.4

Scalable and heterogeneous web toolkit sitting on top of Django and others

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notmm toolkit v0.4.4

Controversial, scalable, and independent fork of Django on top WSGI with privacy and freedom of expression in mind. This web framework is designed by content creators for content creators and artists requiring more control over their content and for easy customization of Django based web-sites using a non-intrusive and fully-tested SDK.

About

Design philosophy

Scalable and non-monolithic By Design

Allow developers to write scalable Django apps easily. The notmm toolkit provides a modular API to develop reusable WSGI applications environment on top of the Django framework.

Pragmatic Web Application Development

Allow developers to test and develop server side WSGI applications in a restricted environment by writing unit tests.

Rapid Framework Refactoring

Based on the unittest module for continuous integration and rapid web framework refactoring.

Open Source

Fully open source licensed (ISC). The notmm toolkit works best under the Linux OS or a BSD variant.

Features

  • Follows the WSGI 1.0 specification for development of related HTTP-based libraries in Python.
  • Supports most Django apps designed for Django, including Satchmo, FeinCMS, and more.
  • MVC (Model-View-Controller) API design with built-in regular-expression URL dispatching.
  • UTF-8 template loading, rendering, and caching. (Mako, Beaker New)
  • Memcache backend support tools. (New)
  • The API pages and the Developer Handbook are generated with Doxygen and Sphinx respectively.
  • Compatible with Python 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7.
  • Commercial support kindly offered and available on request. :)

Experimental Features

  • Experimental AES encryption of picklable Python objects using pycryptopp
  • Experimental SQLAlchemy database backends and functions. (Declarative mapper, Elixir)
  • Experimental non-relational database backends and functions. (Schevo, MongoDB)
  • Experimental unittest2 integration in the notmm.utils.test package.
  • Experimental I18N support. (Based on Django's I18N framework)
  • Experimental C bindings generation with Cython.

Examples

Please see the wiki for real-world examples of applications using the notmm toolkit. In addition, the examples directory should includes demo apps to experiment freely.

Download

Current stable release is 0.4.4.

Development

Mercurial is the current SCM used for development.

For read-only access to the source code repository:

hg clone http://bitbucket.org/erob/notmm/ notmm-trunk

Releases

Releases are now being documented on the Releases page.

PGP signatures

Please use the key ID 0xA086DDEC to verify the downloaded files with your favorite GPG client.

Mirrors

Let me know if you're interested in mirroring notmm source code on a public HTTP or FTP server at erob@gthcfoundation.org. :)

Community

You can put the following logo on your website if you want to support the notmm toolkit:

This website is powered by notmm!

Outro

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. -- Henry David Thoreau

License

Copyright (c) 2007-2011 Etienne Robillard <erob@gthcfoundation.org>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

 
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notmm-0.4.4.tar.gz (md5) Source 2012-02-09 3MB 59