newsletter 0.1.19pre

alpha newsletter software for #python. CHANGES: newsletterapp contact form improvements.

About	newsletter is for making newsletters with python. In very early stages of development. See COPYING for LGPL licence details.
Bugs	https://bitbucket.org/illume/newsletter/issues
Source	hg clone https://bitbucket.org/illume/newsletter https://bitbucket.org/illume/newsletter
Docs	http://packages.python.org/newsletter/
pypi	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/newsletter
Authors	Only one developer so far, maybe more if it becomes useful. Rene Dudfield <[e-mail]> is a lead developer and maintainer of pygame, and is also a Website developer, and App developer

newsletter contains a library for newsletters and a newsletterapp

Install newsletter with virtualenv and pip

This makes an isolated install for you, so it does not pollute your system packages:

virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute myvirtualpython
cd myvirtualpython
source bin/activate
pip install newsletter
newsletterapp --help

Installing with virtualenv and pip is recommended.

Install newsletter with ./configure; make

This is for old school unix peoples:

./configure; make

Install newsletter with setup.py

Using setup.py to install into your normal python sitewide directory:

python setup.py install

newsletter changelog

0.1.19pre (2011-09-9)

Features added

• Adding a pypackages directory for newsletterapp for extending newsletterapp.

Bugs fixed

• port listened on respects config file setting.

0.1.18pre (2011-09-8)

Bugs fixed

• doc error fix

0.1.17pre (2011-09-8)

Bugs fixed

• newsletterapp more secure by default. Does not setup default users for admin section.

• fixed some test failures.

• removed single new line at end of template files, that is put there by editors like vim.

Features added

• newsletterapp can be used for contact forms through send_message config items in the config file.

0.1.16pre (2011-09-1)

Bugs fixed

• installation fixes.

• newsletterapp checks database directory exists and gives error message if it does not.

• newsletterapp –newinstall does not copy in .py files to install directory.

• newsletterapp –newinstall creates database directory by default.

0.1.15pre (2011-09-1)

Bugs fixed

• install.rst rst syntax errors fixed.

Features added

0.1.14pre (2011-09-1)

• install works correctly.

• updated documentation for installation.

Bugs fixed

• removed buildout files.

• setuptools enabled by default.

• added package requirements for newsletterapp

0.1.13pre (2011-08-31)

Features added

• updated documentation

Bugs fixed

• got buildout working.

0.1.12pre (2011-07-25)

Features added

• Adding cmd to send mail locally on unix using sendmail

• Added a default server port to ini file

• Made use instructions more clear.

Bugs fixed

• fixed setup file to continue if reading CHANGES,TODO, and readme fails.

0.1.11pre (2011-07-17)

Features added

• help page in the newsletter.newsletterapp admin section.

• new documentation, using the sphinx tool.

• many improvements to newsletter.newsletterapp.

• command line control of some newsletter.newsletterapp functions.

• source code repository moved to bitbucket and hg from launchpad and bzr.

0.1.10pre (2011-06-06)

Features added

• tests for newsletter application.

• templates sanitize html.

• email templates use same templating system as rest of web app.

• newsletterapp sets cherrypy in production mode by default.

• can add subscribers by tag to a send.

0.1.9pre (2011-05-28)

Features added

• many improvements to example newsletter application.

0.1.8pre (2011-05-23)

Features added

• example application now uses the cherrypy config api and a newsletter.ini file for configuration.

0.1.7pre (2011-05-21)

Features added

• improved example application.

Bugs fixed

• Fixed bug with removing a user from a send.

• Updated TODO.txt

0.1.5pre (2011-04-17)

Features added

• the first draft of an example newsletter web app using cherrypy and pywebsite.sqlitepickle

• Added some extra methods to Newsletter and NewsletterSend to support the example application.

0.1.4pre (2011-03-21)

Features added

• Fixed NewsletterSend so it can have an almost dict like object that uses d.update({k:v}) method instead of d[k] = v.

Bugs fixed

• Made tests more resiliant.

0.1.3pre (2011-03-21)

Bugs fixed

Features added

• implementation of basic NewsletterSend interface, with some doctests.

0.1.2pre (2011-03-18)

Bugs fixed

Features added

• implementation of basic Newsletter interface, with some doctests.

0.1.1pre (2011-03-16)

Bugs fixed

• fixed some basecode.

Features added

0.1.0pre (2011-03-15)

Bugs fixed

• only bugs added so far.

Features added

• adding base code.

• basic newsletter object sketching out.

TODO

• make a test plan.

  • a manual test script to follow to check it all works.

• do release to get feedback.