Last post of the day, I swear. All this catching up is giving me indigestion.
Wtry, o wtry, wherefore art thou not yet complete? wtry is changing. Almost on the level of “A man, barely alive…we can rebuild him”, but not so dramatic. Fact of the matter is that wtry is getting a makeover like the fab five couldn’t even imagine.
The design of the original wtry was very, how do you say, limited in audience and very much restricted to that audience’s needs. As it turns out, the real audience that is interested in wtry is much larger, and the needs of these people are much different from that of the smaller audience. In short, wtry is going to get some much-needed refactoring and redesign. Among the refactoring, we have features like agnostic database connectivity (with a much cleaner internal interface), self-posting pages (where the POST action of a page is contained within the same physical page as the non-actioned portion), flashes and error messages (notes on the top of the next-viewed page after an action is taken), and quite a few others. Some of the new features being added are distributed compilation and testing, a more generalized course/assignment/task relation mechanism, a secure compilation/testing environment, and a testing architecture. Woo-hoo!
If you really want to see what the new stuff looks like, check it out on ephesus, at the wtry test site. If you don’t, then just forget it. I here the wtry install at RIT is, uh, awesome. Go check that one out on doji, the official wtry site.
The final announcement is that wrty will be getting a new name. We’re trying to establish two separate versions of the project, so we will make it quasi-official with a new name. If you have any ideas, drop me a line, catch me in the halls, IM me (silentdakeyras), or post a message here. Just nothing that you wouldn’t say in front of your grandma – we are a PG operation here.