Revision 10 as of 2002-08-16 08:26:45

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URL

http://skunkweb.sf.net

version

3.3 (Date(2002-08-16T00:00:00))

licence

[http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html GPL] - SkunkWeb is open source (more specifically "free software").

platforms

SkunkWeb works on UNIX platforms, or on Windows with the Cygwin environment (the latter is not a supported platform, however).

Python versions
2.1.1 and later

Deployment Platforms

Suitability

The requirement for Web server adapter integration, or the running of a standalone server, rules SkunkWeb out for more limited hosting environments. However, where such deployment is possible, the performance should be satisfactory, given that this is clearly a priority of the developers.

Development Interfaces

Environment Access

Session, Identification and Authentication

Persistence Support

Presentation Support

Comments

The SkunkWeb archive package contains formatted documentation (HTML, PostScript, PDF and DVI); the latest version can always be downloaded, from http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/. The installation process is somewhat more involved than with other packages, but should be straightforward enough to anyone used to installing GNU autoconf-based packages.

The SkunkWeb developers emphasise performance and give caching, process forking and template precompilation as features which differentiate SkunkWeb from other frameworks and application servers; internationalisation using message catalogues is another feature which other frameworks do not provide or emphasise highly. Unlike many Python-based frameworks, SkunkWeb is licensed under the GPL and this may influence community participation in the enhancement of the framework - it is not appropriate to judge the licence choice in this document, however. See http://skunkweb.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#sec10 as to why this was done and how it affects you (in short, it probably doesn't).

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