GNU Artanis 0.2 released

GNU Artanis is a web application framework (WAF) written in Guile Scheme and v0.2 is its first stable release. "It is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, web applications, web services and web resources. Artanis provides several tools for web development: database access, templating frameworks, session management, URL-remapping for RESTful, page caching, and so on."

From:		Nala Ginrut <mulei-AT-gnu.org>
To:		info-gnu-AT-gnu.org, guile-user-AT-gnu.org, artanis-AT-gnu.org
Subject:		[ANN] Release GNU Artanis-0.2 (stable)
Date:		Wed, 10 May 2017 23:15:26 +0800
Message-ID:		<87tw4spwtt.fsf@gnu.org>


I'm pleased to announce the first stable version artanis-0.2 here.

GNU Artanis is a web application framework(WAF) written in Guile Scheme. 
http://web-artanis.com

It is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, web 
applications, web services and web resources. Artanis provides several 
tools for web development: database access, templating frameworks, 
session management, URL-remapping for RESTful, page caching, and so on. 

GNU Artanis is under GPLv3+ & LGPLv3+ (dual licenses). 

GNU Artanis is also the official project of SZDIY community. It's used 
to build server side of SZDIY common service. It is offered to GNU 
project to make free software better. 
http://szdiy.org 

Here are the compressed sources:
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/artanis//artanis-0.2.tar.gz   (488KB)
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/artanis//artanis-0.2.tar.bz2   (408KB)

Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/artanis//artanis-0.2.tar.gz.sig
  http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/artanis//artanis-0.2.tar.bz2.sig

Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

1fd9065dbb920611c270597a8e232359  artanis-0.2.tar.gz
ada424d2d679e8d4002c57f271f9398e  artanis-0.2.tar.bz2
8313ebc1732a0d88a5fd45aaa444287320195277  artanis-0.2.tar.gz
f4e65e6a43d3df47d73549b52e52a45387e34cf3  artanis-0.2.tar.bz2

[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact.  First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball.  Then, run a command like this:

  gpg --verify artanis-0.2.tar.gz.sig

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:

  gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys EE78E925

and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
  Autoconf 2.69
  Guile 2.2.1.2-02cf3-dirty

NEWS

Changes in 0.2
* Notable changes
  Brand new server core Ragnarok based on delimited continuations.
  Good multi-core support.
  Efficient static file uploading and downloading.
  Fixed many bugs.

-- 
If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like
to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package,
see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 10, 2017 21:26 UTC (Wed) by jhoblitt (subscriber, #77733) [Link] (1 responses)

Semver or not... wouldn't it make sense to label the first stable version as 1.0?

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 11, 2017 20:40 UTC (Thu) by kevincox (subscriber, #93938) [Link]

I would take this to mean that there will be comatility breakage in the near term. I find that the version number is useful and one could argue that the project sin't fully "released" until the 1.0.

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 10, 2017 21:31 UTC (Wed) by zyga (subscriber, #81533) [Link] (10 responses)

There are several popular webapp frameworks around, using far more popular languages. There are also several common lisp webapp frameworks around. Is anyone familiar with Artanis that could answer why the developers chose to implement a new framework rather than contributing to an existing one? Is it about the license? Is it some particular feature that is unique?

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 10, 2017 23:16 UTC (Wed) by ssl (guest, #98177) [Link] (6 responses)

The story of this software is that's written in Guile, which is the GNU's preferred scripting language.

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 11, 2017 12:11 UTC (Thu) by gowen (guest, #23914) [Link] (5 responses)

Five years too late to make any real impact, and written in a Lisp-like language that almost no-one working in that domain cares about.

Honetly, it's the perfect GNU project.

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 11, 2017 16:21 UTC (Thu) by adirat (subscriber, #86623) [Link]

Some people write Lisp/Scheme/Rust/whatever for its own sake or for fun, there's not necessarily a need to get adoption across a "working domain of professional people".

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 11, 2017 16:25 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (3 responses)

If they enjoy working on some free software (regardless of what you think of their choices), and it doesn't harm you, why be disparaging? Live and let live.

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 11, 2017 17:23 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (2 responses)

It's telling that the responses to adirat's posting don't even attempt to come up with rational reasons for why one would want to use this.

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 11, 2017 19:11 UTC (Thu) by bandrami (guest, #94229) [Link]

Well, that part's easy: Guile's FFI is (for me at least) parsecs better than any other scripting language's. If I needed to glue together a bunch of library code to make a web application it's what I would turn to.

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 12, 2017 10:12 UTC (Fri) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

> It's telling that the responses to adirat's posting [...]

Guessing from the content I assume you mean zyga's posting.

Well, I'm not the target audience for Artanis, since it aims for a vertically integrated web framework (from database to client-side scripting). I detest client side scripting myself and won't thus impose that on my guests.

But I've been following its development, and Nala is doing a beautiful job. Artanis is well architected and Scheme/Guile is *fun* (yeah, eye, beholder, those things).

There was a time where the whole world was being rewritten to have the prefix "py": perhaps it was much busywork, but thanks to a fresh perspective, it brought about a couple of interesting things; Same with go and (especially) with Rust. I don't particularly care (about either), but I keep a curious and friendly regard on them. Especially Rust's inspiration in linear types... how is that working out in practice? All of that.

Just saying "meh, just another foo done in another programming language"... c'm on. We'd still be doing FORTRAN these days. It'd be boring and sad.

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 11, 2017 6:03 UTC (Thu) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link] (2 responses)

(not ("Scheme" "Common LISP" =))

If you want to make nerd jokes…

Posted May 11, 2017 17:26 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link] (1 responses)

at least do it right:
(not (eq? "Scheme" "Common LISP"))

If you want to make nerd jokes…

Posted May 11, 2017 22:36 UTC (Thu) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link]

Oh well, at least it shows how horrible I am with Scheme :(

GNU Artanis 0.2 released

Posted May 10, 2017 22:24 UTC (Wed) by davidstrauss (guest, #85867) [Link]

> web application framework (WAF)

Please choose a different acronym. WAF is already taken and broadly used [1] in the context of web stacks.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=waf

The Obsolete GNU ..

Posted May 14, 2017 8:42 UTC (Sun) by darwish (guest, #102479) [Link] (3 responses)

A single GNU operating system with Stallman as its messiah. Where we happily use GCC without any plugins, read documentation in info instead of man, preferably do most of our code in C, support a sh*t list of non-existing obsolete Unices in autotools, striffle innovation of the Linux kernel by limiting the Linux-only systemcalls support in glibc, passionately wait for Hurd's new releases, use emacs as our main "IDE", and code our glue logic in GUILE.

A worldview which is getting embarrassingly obsolete over time ...

The Obsolete GNU ..

Posted May 14, 2017 8:53 UTC (Sun) by darwish (guest, #102479) [Link] (1 responses)

> preferably do most of our code in C

And not just any kind of C, but one with an ugly as hell LISP-like indentation syntax and an _insane_ amount of C preprocessor guards everywhere.

The Obsolete GNU ..

Posted May 15, 2017 7:43 UTC (Mon) by oldtomas (guest, #72579) [Link]

I think you can't afford as much arrogance as you are showing without wising up on what's actually "out there".

The Obsolete GNU ..

Posted May 14, 2017 10:11 UTC (Sun) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> A worldview which is getting embarrassingly obsolete over time ...

Perhaps, perhaps not -- For a post ostensibly about the FSF's worldview, you seem to have neglected to actually mention what that worldview _is_ and what's supposedly wrong with it.

(Meanwhile, GNU will keep going on, left standing long after everyone commits the seppuku euphemistically called "value added" -- like the BSD wards that Microsoft eventually won, only this time with DRM enforced by laws that carry harsher punishments than violent felonies)