Changeset 29

Timestamp:

02/06/07 17:03:06 (6 years ago)

Author:

cleverdevil

Message:

Added an 'about' page. It still needs a lot of information, including our list of open decisions, but its a start.

Files:

• elixir/trunk/docs/about.rst (modified) (1 diff)

elixir/trunk/docs/about.rst

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 About
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+-------
+History
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+In 2006, `Jonathan LaCour <http://cleverdevil.org>`_ discovered the fantastic
+`SQLAlchemy <http://sqlalchemy.org>`_ project, and really liked its power and
+flexibility, but found that in many simple cases he would prefer a simpler and
+more attractive way to declare his model objects.  As a result, Jonathan spent
+a few hours on a weekend to create the `ActiveMapper
+<http://cleverdevil.org/computing/35/>`_ SQLAlchemy extension. For a weekend's
+worth of work, it wasn't half bad, and gained a little bit of traction in the
+wild.  But, over time, it became clear that ActiveMapper needed a lot of work
+to stabilize and become more useful.
+
+Later that year, `Daniel Haus <http://www.ematia.de>` released his own layer
+on top of SQLAlchemy, called `TurboEntity <http://turboentity.ematia.de>`_. 
+TurboEntity solved some of the problems of ActiveMapper, and took a slightly
+different approach to the problem.  TurboEntity also began to gain some ground
+and it became clear to both Daniel and Jonathan that they needed to work
+together.
+
+Around the same time, Gaëtan de Menten contacted both Jonathan and Daniel to
+reveal that he had been working on his own layer as well.  A few weeks later,
+all three agreed to work together to create a replacement for TurboEntity and
+ActiveMapper using their collective experience and knowledge.
+
+
+--------
+The Name
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+
+The Oxford English Dictionary defines Elixir as: "a magical or medicinal potion,
+a preparation that was supposedly able to change metals into gold, sought by 
+alchemists."
+
+
+----------
+The Future
+----------
+
+The eventual goal of the Elixir project is to become an official SQLAlchemy
+extension.  But, before we submit elixir for inclusion within SQLAlchemy, we
+want the opportunity to solicit feedback and contributions from users to make
+sure that we have ironed out any bugs, missing features, syntax changes, or
+documentation deficiencies.
+
+The primary things we would like to resolve before we make our first stable
+and official release are:
+
+- TODO