Bespin 0.5.1 Release Notes

Known Bugs

This release is a preview release. We wanted to get this out to embedders so that they could try it out and give us feedback on the new packaging.

The BespinEmbedded.js file is larger than we'd like it to be, but optimizing its size is not easy at this stage. We'll be looking at ways to shrink it further from release to release. bug 528479
Currently, Bespin is putting three objects into your page's global namespace: SC, ENV and tiki. bug 528480
In development, the SproutCore test runner is not yet working, likely due to the new "Tiki" module loader that Bespin is using. bug 528482

You can now log in to Bespin and sign up. bug 530242
Embedded new option: dontHookWindowResizeEvent. Bespin will now automatically listen for resize events and do the right thing with the editor. This option lets you turn that behavior off.

startup extension point: called when Bespin is done initializing. Use this sparingly, because plugins that use this are basically not lazily loaded.

The gutter in the editor has now been broken out into a separate component.
There is now a CanvasMixin that makes creating <canvas>-based components easier.
paver start now launches both SproutCore's Abbot build server (sc-server) and Bespin's Python server. Abbot's server sits in front on port 4020 and proxies requests to Bespin's server on port 8080. All of the server requests are prefixed with /server/
The server now automatically serves up the plugin metadata in plugins/bespin-supported in the bespinclient project. The URL for this is http://localhost:4020/server/plugin/register/defaults
The Settings API has been cleaned up dramatically.
When installing the server for development, the development sqlite database is automatically created for you. bug 531985