From: Ryan Pavlik Date: 2003-09-08T16:28:54+09:00 Subject: ANN: Mephle 0.8.1 Mephle 0.8.1 ============ Mephle is a network-transparent, interface-independent, persistant object platform written in Ruby. It is designed to allow the focus of development to be on desired functionality rather than the numerous details such as communications protocols, file formats, and user interface coding that usually take a large portion of development time. It is based on design principles put forth for the Unity project (http://unity-project.sf.net). Most notably, the focus of Mephle is on writing classes that provide the desired functionality. These classes are then instantiated and manipulated directly by clients---whether these clients are scripts or interactive users. This is the main princple of the Unity project, and Mephle is a robust approximation of this system. Currently, Mephle provides a fully-functional CGI-based interface engine, including an HTML widget-set and interface generators. However, there are no dependencies on the web; a 1.0 goal is to provide a Gtk+ interface, and possibly others. Mephle and related information can be found at the following site: http://www.mephle.org/ -- Ryan Pavlik