Cubes 0.8 Released

Another minor release of Cubes - Light Weight Python OLAP framework is out. Main change is that backend is no longer hard-wired in the Slicer server and can be selected through configuration file.

There were lots of documentation changes, for example the reference was separated from the rest of docs. Hello World! example was added.

The news, changes and fixes are:

New Features

• Started writing StarBrowser - another SQL aggregation browser with different approach (see code/docs)

Slicer Server:

• added configuration option modules under [server] to load additional modules
• added ability to specify backend module
• backend configuration is in [backend] by default, for SQL it stays in [db]
• added server config option for default prettyprint value (useful for demontration purposes)

Documentation:

• Changed license to MIT + small addition. Please refer to the LICENSE file.
• Updated documentation - added missing parts, made reference more readable, moved class and function reference docs from descriptive part to reference (API) part.
• added backend documentation
• Added "Hello World!" example

Changed Features

• removed default SQL backend from the server
• moved worskpace creation into the backend module

Fixes

• Fixed create_view to handle not materialized properly (thanks to deytao)
• Slicer tool header now contains #!/usr/bin/env python

Links

• github sources: https://github.com/Stiivi/cubes
• Documentation: http://packages.python.org/cubes/
• Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/cubes-discuss
• Submit issues here: https://github.com/Stiivi/cubes/issues
• IRC channel: #databrewery on irc.freenode.net

If you have any questions, comments, requests, do not hesitate to ask.