drink 0.0.10

High-level Web Object-managing framework on top of ZODB and Jinja2

Install

Just fetch the source archive and unpack it:

wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/d/drink/drink-0.0.10.tar.bz2
tar jxvf drink-0.0.10.tar.bz2

Running

Just go into the unpacked drink directory and execute the "manage" script:

cd drink-0.0.10
./manage

If you run into troubles, try:

DEBUG=1 ./manage

Goals

• Add features at ONE place in ONE language (html/css/js may be required for some advanced/custom usages)
• Be fast, with built-in search engine
• Ajax (ajaj in fact) - with nice fallbacks for old browsers
• No SQL
• Website: as simple as a nested dict-like objects tree, endpoints (last element of URL) are object's properties & methods
• Make it as productive as possible for most generic tasks

Out of the box, it is something between a wiki and a cms, probably a good base for a lightweight web CMS / Intranet / Forum / etc!

0.1 (wip)

• add more types to default form edition
• object_path => integrate it to markdown editor
• buildbot & virtualenv
• change cookie on password change
• only accept object move if it succeded on server
• allow custom extensions
• Per-user group-list, showing in permissions panels
• allow rss via http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/RSS
• HomePage object: Login-splash+UserDashboard write user homepages (with login & passwd & name & surname change) / splash-like if not logged-in
• think about comments ( as property of some Model ?) - commentlist ?
• allow objects to add custom actions in admin bar
• edit form: only send "dirty" values when possible
• add some recursive permissions setter
• "background processes" for each user / sessions
• theme support (config entry + template & static path)
• ensure proper checks are correct at server side
• Form object?
• find the cleanest way to make all incoming URLs ends with /
• pack should call http://packages.python.org/Whoosh/api/index.html?highlight=optimize#whoosh.index.Index.optimize on whoosh
• add calltips everywhere
• default content for every user
• review 401 handling, ask for login/passwd in case of new session (to be finished)
• Think about opening WebFiles in mail client as attached file...
• add markdown support to tasks comment
• improve link support (javascript popup) in markdown so it's easy to link tasks to any object

Fixes:

• only returns requested range in TODO List
• Rename Tasks/TODO List to calendar
• remove Ctrl+Enter conflict on Markitup
• /users as user => 401 (should list instead)
• search => 401 by default (should be allowed)
• mask file upload widget if File not available here
• investigate fileupload D&D bugs
• files >4GB are making crazy js loops
• files ~>500MB may hang the request & cause timeout

0.2

• zip importer
• pdf with pypdf
• doc
• project support (using drink as a base)
• integrate imgviewer (image folder type)

0.3

• multi-object page
• spreadsheet ?
• integrate graph library (http://www.jqplot.com/)

0.4

• "real" sessions ?
• chat program (introduce webhooks ?)

0.5

• forum
• more tests

0.6

• gadgets (google search, rss reader, clock, xkcd, ?)

0.7

• permissions setting admin object

0.8

• user interface cleanup

0.9

• doc & fix but minor improvements

1.0

• stable release

1.x

• homepage /user pages focus