Re: ActiviPy 0.1 release: feedback welcome!

On 3 November 2015 at 18:20, Shane Hudson <Shane@shanehudson.net> wrote:

> I really like the way you've made it accessible without requiring
> knowledge of JSON-LD unless the user wants to use it, I think it will help
> a lot of people.
>

Knowledge of JSON LD isnt required to use it.  It's a bit like knowledge of
the DOM isnt required to use jquery.  All LD means is tying key value pairs
to a subject, in a way that is webby  That is to say, in a way that
encourages use of URLs.


>
> Thanks for your hard work!
> Shane
>
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Christopher Allan Webber <
> cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> So I haven't been participating in the conversations on-list (even
>> though I have strong opinions) lately, because I've been hacking like
>> mad to get out the first release of Activipy, v0.1!
>>
>>   http://activipy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>>   https://github.com/w3c-social/activipy
>>
>> Some things I think are interesting about Activipy:
>>  - It wraps ActivityStreams documents in pythonic style objects
>>
>>  - Has a nice and extensible method dispatch system that even works well
>>    with ActivityStreams/json-ld's composite types.
>>
>>  - It has an "Environment" feature: different applications might need
>>    to represent different vocabularies or extensions, and also might
>>    need to hook up entirely different sets of objects.
>>
>>  - It hits a good middle ground in keeping things simple, until you need
>>    complexity.  Everything's "just json", until you need to get into
>>    extension-land, in which case json-ld features are introduced.
>>    (Under the hood, that's always been there, but users don't
>>    necessarily need to understand json-ld to work with it.)
>>
>>  - Good docs!  I think!  Or I worked really hard on them, at least!
>>
>> The docs, I think, are a good guide into how to get up and running
>> with ActivityStreams and make it useful for your application:
>>
>>   http://activipy.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
>>
>> Please do read, try it out, and give feedback!
>>
>> Happy hacking,
>>  - Chris
>>
>>
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