From 729daf94f3122605f3ba0887442016b11805affd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "R. Tyler Ballance" Cheetah is an open source
+ Cheetah Community Edition is a community supported release of the
+ Cheetah template engine and code generation tool,
template engine and code generation tool, written in Python. It can be used standalone
or combined with other tools and frameworks. Web development is its
principle use, but Cheetah is very flexible and is also being used to
generate C++ game code, Java, sql, form emails and even Python code. The reasons behind the Community Edition is to maintain active development
+ outside the mostly-stale Cheetah CVS tree.
+ Cheetah CE is not intended on diverging from the main goals of the original releases
+ of Cheetah, stability, speed and ease of use, but is to serve as a means of reinvigorating
+ the Cheetah community with monthly releases with patches provided by the
+ community as they're needed.
+
Cheetah has a large and active user community. Products built with
Cheetah are used by many of the Fortune
500. One prominent new user is
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+ href="http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tree/master">Git
Cheetah: Cheetah Community Edition: Cheetah was created by Tavis Rudd, a freelance programmer and designer, with
contributions from many open source volunteers. Its documentation is edited by
-Mike Orr, who also wrote its command line tool.
We$(apos)d like to thank the following people for contributing valuable advice, encouragement, code and bug reports:
@@ -275,6 +285,7 @@ advice, encouragement, code and bug reports: Brian Bird Chad Walstrom Chris Murphy + Christoph Zwerschke Christophe Eymard Chuck Esterbrook Chui Tey @@ -286,11 +297,15 @@ advice, encouragement, code and bug reports: Donnie Hale Doug Wyatt Edmund Lian + Eric Huss Erik Forsberg + Erwin Ambrosch + Evan Klitzke Federico Di Gregorio Franz Geiger Geir Magnusson Geoff Talvola + Graham Dennis Graham Dumpleton Greg Czajkowski Hamish Lawson @@ -335,8 +350,10 @@ advice, encouragement, code and bug reports: Robert Cowham Robert Kuzelj Rodrigo B. de Oliveira + R. Tyler Ballance Scott Sanders Sasa Zivkov + Satoru Satoh Shannon -jj Behrens Stephan Diehl Stephane Bortzmeyer @@ -489,18 +506,15 @@ href="http://www.webwareforpython.org/">Webware for Python email list. #def downloadPageContentsThe most recent - stable release was 2.0.1 on November 16th, 2007. Cheetah has been stable, + href="http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.1.0">recent stable release + was Cheetah Community Edition v2.1.0, was released on March 16th, 2009. + The latest Cheetah "official" release was 2.0.1 on November 16th, 2007. Cheetah has been stable, production quality, post-beta code since 2001. All new releases since then (40+) have been almost 100% backwards compatible. The 2.0 code itself has production ready since early 2006.
Here$(apos)s the documentation on recent changes.
- -You can also get the current unreleased development version of Cheetah from - our CVS - repository.
+ href="CHANGES">recent changes.Cheetah is included in FreeBSD and most major Linux distributions: Gentoo, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu among others.
@@ -585,7 +599,9 @@ href="http://www.webwareforpython.org/">Webware for Python email list. IronPort Systems, which are used by the largest corporations and ISPs in the world. IronPort$(apos)s products contain over a million lines of Python and use Cheetah plus Aquarium for their user interfaces. + href="http://aquarium.sf.net">Aquarium for their user interfaces. Other + major startup users of Cheetah include companies like YouTube, + Yelp and Slide.