After a months-long "pre-release" period, we're pleased to announce the first release of Django, the Web framework for perfectionists (with deadlines).
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. It lets you write high-quality Web apps very quickly, with very little code. It gives you: * An object-relational mapper, which currently works with PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite. (Oracle and MS-SQL support are coming.) This lets you query databases in Python; there's no need to write SQL if you don't want to. * A template system. * A beautiful, production-ready admin interface -- for free. * Full internationalization (i18n) support. * A super-cool community! * An RSS/Atom-producing framework. * Tons of other niceties, such as generic views (which abstract common Web-development patterns), based on several years' worth of solving Real Problems in the Real World. Django has been used on production sites -- lawrence.com, ljworld.com, 6newslawrence.com, kusports.com, visitlawrence.com -- since late 2003. It also powers chicagocrime.org and a host of other sites all over the world. See http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoPoweredSites . This release is version 0.90. Our goal is to wrap up remaining changes for 1.0 in the coming weeks/month, and release 1.0 with a guarantee of backwards compatibility. There's not yet a guarantee of backwards compatibility between releases. http://www.djangoproject.com/ http://www.djangoproject.com/download/ Enjoy! Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
