[Haskell-cafe] [ANN] salvia-0.1, salvia-extras-0.1

[Sebastiaan Visser]

There is now. Not much new in Orchid itself, but builds against the  
updated Salvia. Because of the use of keep-alive the performance of  
orchid should be a lot better now (at some places).

--
Sebastiaan

On Mar 28, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Paul L wrote:
> Thanks for the massive update! Is there a new version of Orchid  
> coming along?
>
> On 3/22/09, Sebastiaan Visser <sfvisser at cs.uu.nl> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am pleased to announce a new version of Salvia, the lightweight
>> Haskell Web Server Framework with modular support for serving static
>> files, directories indices, default error responses, connection
>> counting and logging, HEAD and PUT requests, keep-alives, custom
>> banner printing, default handler environments for parsing request and
>> printing responses, dispatching based on request methods, URI, paths
>> and filename extension, URI rewriting and redirection, virtual
>> hosting, cookie, session and user management and more...
>>
>> Changes since previous version:
>>
>> - Some more advanced, non-fundamental handlers have been moved to
>> their own package salvia-extras. This helps pruning the  
>> dependencies a
>> bit.
>> - The package now has some default handler environments that simplify
>> setting up a server application.
>> - The server now has support for keep-alive, significantly increasing
>> the performance.
>> - The library functions are now almost fully documented instead of  
>> no-
>> documentation-at-all in the previous versions.
>> - Salvia now also works on windows (I heard).
>> - Lots of code cleanups throughout the code.
>> - Lots of minor bug fixes.
>>
>> To install: use cabal.
>>
>> Thanks to the people that helped me with suggestions and bug-reports!
>>
>> --
>> Sebastiaan.
>>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Paul Liu