[Sputnik-list] Sputnik 0.3-beta

[Yuri Takhteyev]

(I just sent this to the kepler-list, then remembered that we've got
our own list.)

A beta release of Sputnik 0.3 is available.  There are a lot of
changes from 0.3-alpha and even more from 0.2:

New since 0.3. alpha:

    * Sputnik's HTML and CSS validate in W3C validators
    * File names are now Windows-friendly
    * Page names have been simplified
    * Authentication should now work properly
    * Templates and style-sheets have been tweaked

Note that this version _should_ work with Windows, though I haven't
had a chance to test that.

New since 0.2:

    * Color Schemes
    * Per-Page RSS
    * Minor edits excluded from history
    * Interface for diffing between arbitrary revisions of the page
    * Preview
    * Validation of Lua code (in preview or when showing)
    * Support for translation of the interface (currently have
translation for English, Portuguese and Russian)
    * Prototype inheritance between pages - see Metapages, they are
actually now called Prototypes?
    * Option of using LuaSVN as a storage layer
    * Option of using POD instead of Markdown
    * Lots of UI improvements

This release comes in two versions:

1. http://media.freewisdom.org/etc/sputnik-0.3.0-beta-mini.zip
2. http://media.freewisdom.org/etc/sputnik-0.3.0-beta.zip

The first one does not include any optional components, examples, etc.
 If you are new to Sputnik, I recommend the "mini" version.  (Once you
start asking "How do I use it with LuaSVN as the storage layer?", then
you are ready for the full version.)

The release notes are at
http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/sputnik/Cottington_Beta_Release_Notes
and I will update this page as new version of 0.3 comes out.

One interesting new feature in 0.3 is "Prototypes": a page can now
fall back on fields defined in another page.  This means that you can
configure a page to behave a particular way, then use this page as a
protype for a whole bunch of other pages.  E.g., in the current
version, six configuration pages declare "@Lua_Config" as a prototype,
which makes them aware of the fact that their content is Lua code
rather than markdown.  (I use "@" as a prefix for prototype pages,
though this is purely a naming convention.)

The main priory for 0.4 will probably be porting to Versium.  In fact,
this will probably be the only goal of 0.4.  Permissions might come
together with it.

- yuri

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Yuri Takhteyev
http://www.freewisdom.org/