pyslet 0.7.20170805

Installing from Source

The Pyslet package contains a setup.py script so you can install it by downloading the compressed archive, uncompressing it and then running the following command inside the package:

python setup.py install

Windows users should note that when downloading a zipped archive of the distribution some unittests may fail due to the ambiguity in character encoding file names in zip archives. This is not an issue with Pyslet itself but an issue with some of the test data in the unittests folder. If you use Git (or GitHub desktop) to checkout the master instead then the unittests should work, please report any errors as the continuous build system does not catch Windows-specific bugs.

Current Status & Road Map

Pyslet is going through a transition process at the moment as the QTI migration tool that drives its development is gradually moving towards being distributed as an LTI tool rather than a desktop application.

The OData support is fairly robust, it is used to run the Cambridge Weather OData service which can be found at http://odata.pyslet.org/weather

What’s next?

• OData version 4: this will be a rewrite of the OData modules though they will ultimately behave in a similar way to the existing sub-package.

• MySQL shim for the OData SQL storage model (90% complete and functional)

• Improved support for LTI to take it beyond ‘basic’ (60% complete)

I also write about Pyslet on my blog: http://swl10.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Pyslet

Feedback

The best way to get something changed is to create an issue or Pull request on GitHub, however, my contact details are available there on my profile page if you just want to drop me an email with a suggestion or question.

License

Pyslet is distributed under the ‘New’ BSD license: http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause, this decision was inherited from the early days of the code. Although Copyright to much of the source is owned by the author personally earlier parts are owned by the University of Cambridge and are marked as such.

Pyslet is written and maintained by the main author on a spare time basis and is not connected to my current employer.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to everyone who has raised issues, questions and pull requests on GitHub!

Some historical information is available on the QTI Migration tool’s Google Code project: https://code.google.com/p/qtimigration/

Some of the code was written in the 1990s and it owes a lot to the University of Cambridge and, in particular, to the team I worked with at UCLES (aka Cambridge Assessment) who were instrumental in getting this project started.