Warp9
Abstract
Warp9 is a CMS written in Python. Its approach is different than most other CMS's, it builds a static site out of a text infrastructure.Introduction
Warp9 is a really young project that was written to run the spootnik website. The project needed the following features to begin with:
- A clean, CSS based layout
- A consistent look across all pages
- Full standards conformance
- A homepage summing up the data present in the site
- A log engine to add simple (b)log entries
- A news engine
- An article engine to provide documentation
- Simple standalone web pages
Warp9 does all this and more with a small 600 LOC python script. The data for the site is organized using a simple file-system based structure and is then read by the script that generates the site. There are currently a lot of shortcomings to this project, but it is a good start and will evolve to something cleaner as time goes on.
Download
The current version of Warp9 is only available through anonymous CVS. Please refer to the CVS page if you need information on how to connect to the CVS Repository.
Licensing
Warp9 is licensed under the simple BSD license, refer to the goals page for a more detailed explanation.
All related articles
- Warp9 data model by Pierre-Yves Ritschard on 2005.10.21
This is a description of the syntax that will be used for Warp9's base configuration and data representation files.
- The future of warp9 by Pierre-Yves Ritschard on 2005.10.18
Warp9's functionnality is currently limited. This is a look at what is coming and what will soon be available in our CMS.