ANN: RuneBlade-Foundation-0.3.0

[Shane Holloway (RuneBlade)]

#~ ANN: RuneBlade-Foundation-0.3.0 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

RuneBlade Foundation is a set of GUI skinning and other tools created to =
ease
the development of XML-based applications.  Application such as Jabber =
(XML)=20
for communications; XML "skin" for a wxPython GUI; or, an XML "skin" for =

xhtml or svg output similar to other templating engines.

More information, including distributables, can be found at=20
http://www.runeblade.com/foundation/ or by contacting the author at
shane.holloway@runeblade.com

RuneBlade Foundation Release 0.3.0 includes:

    Base Tools:
        Utilities for WeakBinding and ContextApply wrappers for callable
        objects.  XML Builder / XML Objectifier / XML Class Builder =
tools
        for truly object oriented XML on pythonic terms.

    Jabber Tools:=20
        An XML-based messaging system.  See http://jabber.org
        Event driven architecture based on Subject/Observer.
        Collections of client or component connections are natively =
support.
        Support for message sending, presence changes, and iq packets =
helpers.
        Modules include presence maps, message routers, and standard iq =
responses.

    Skinning Framework:=20
        Base framework for inheritable attributes, etc.
        Python-in-xml skin implementation, for creating skins that are =
alive.
        wxPython skin production implementation.  (See =
http://wxpython.org)
        DOT output.  (See =
http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/)
        xhtml/svg templated output.

    Subject Observer:
        Tools modeled after their classic namesake, helping to create an =

        event-based architecture.  Used heavily by both the Skinning and =

        Jabber frameworks.

    wxTools:
        A bag O tricks for wxPython. (wxPython was the first skin,=20
        and as such, gets all the attention...)

RuneBlade Foundation is governed by a BSD style open-source LICENSE, and =
can=20
be found at http://www.runeblade.com/foundation/bsd.html

Future announcements will also be made via mailing list, which can be =
found=20
at http://www.runeblade.com/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce

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ease the development of XML-based applications. (31-Jul-02)