Guile-Web: A Web Programming Library for Guile

NEWS

0.5.0 (2005-05-14) Upgrading to this version is recommended
- Removed SSAX (Guile-Lib has a working set of modules for it)
- (web xhtml)
  - Renamed (web html) to (web xhtml)
  - Fixed a serious bug with the xhtml-tag output code (it wasn't passing the port to the display of the tag-tree for a non-empty tag)
- Reworked the README to make it more useful and readable
0.4.3 (2005-01-05)
- Fixed a few typos in the manual
- (web html)
  - Converted to a new internal format
  - New procedure, xhtml:tag-tree->shtml, converts a tag tree to shtml (as used by HtmlPrag)
  - Now works with Guile 1.7.1+ (again)
  - It turns out that lambda* wasn't broken and the behaviour I was seeing is part of the spec. Oops. The "work around" is still in place but it is now permanent.
  - Fixed html tag sharing problems
- session.c compiles with newer versions of libcgi
0.4.2 (2004-06-16)
- (web template): Added template:set-error-handler to allow the error handler to be overriden
- (web template): This was broken in 0.4.1, whoops. It works now.
- (web html): This should work now; lambda* is currently broken (Guile 1.6.4/CVS HEAD as of 2004-06-16) and I have written a work around (in the meantime non-empty tags will be slightly slower).
0.4.1 (2004-02-27)
- Updated documentation
- (web html): The definitions for the tags defined in this module are now generated at compile time instead of load time, speeding up the loading of this module by a fair amount
0.4.0 (2004-01-26):
- (web template) now throws an exception with the key 'web:template:error when a parse error occurs.
- (web session):
  - session:end must now be called at the end of a session; however, access to variables in the session should now be faster and now things should be properly serialized
  - Session support was rewritten around the new serializer
- (web serialize): The old serializer was replaced with a completely new one which is incompatible with the old one. This one works much better but still needs quite a bit of work.
- Documentation: Updated to reflect the changes to the serializer
0.3.0: (web html) is now documented, (web db) has been rewritten (it is now much faster and uses significantly less memory), and a new module (web template) has been written (this time with documentation from the start).
0.2.0: The hash-dash reader extension no longer support <?guile ?> blocks (for speed). If you used that, just leave the hash-dash block and reenter it. There is a new module, (web html), that generates xhtml 1.0 code. It is a bit slow, but I just wanted to get this release out before I went back to working really long weeks and had no time to do anything.

Description

Guile-Web is (or will be) a powerful library for Scheme web programming. The manual is fairly complete and contains documentation for all the pieces except for SSAX (for the SSAX docs look at the source). Guile-Web is intended to be used with mod_guile but mod_guile is not required to use Guile-Web (mod_guile is only recommended for speed). You must install libCGI to use guile-web (it is used for the session manager; I may use more of libCGI later). SimpleSQL is recommended; without it the db module is useless (if you don't use SimpleSQL you just can't use the module, it is not required to install or use any of the other guile-web modules).

Requirements

Guile Scheme version 1.6 (other versions may work but are not tested)
LibCGI
SimpleSQL optional to support the (web db) module
mod_guile optional (not recommended anymore since it is buggy, it may get better in the future).

Documentation

The documentation for Guile-Web is provided as a texinfo file. You can use your favorite info viewer to read it. The documentation is licensed under the FDL so you can reprint it and do whatever you want with it (basically, read the FDL to be sure of what you can do). I have provided an HTML version here. Guile-Web 0.5.0 HTML Manual.

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Last modified: Sat May 14 22:02:30 EDT 2005