[Tilecache] TileCache 2.01 Released

[Christopher Schmidt]

TileCache 2.01 has been released.

tilecache-2.01,  Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:40:43 -0500
 * Add Amazon S3 Cache support.
 * Add cache documentation
 * Improved error handling in server startup
 * Many minor cleanups of documentation, etc.

Release information
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  Download .zip: http://tilecache.org/tilecache-2.01.zip
  Download .tar.gz: http://tilecache.org/tilecache-2.01.tar.gz
  Download .deb: http://tilecache.org/tilecache_2.01_all.deb
  Browse source: http://svn.tilecache.org/tags/tilecache/release-2.01/
  Readme: http://tilecache.org/readme.html

Amazon S3 Support
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Example configuration::

  [cache]
  type=AWSS3
  access_key=833833ABC88838
  secret_access_key=8234abyi3kdjby8so8idu

This cache can use one of two libraries:

Boto
____
Available from http://code.google.com/p/boto/, boto is a package that 
wraps the Amazon APIs in a Pythonic wrapper. This is installable on
recent Debian-based distributions as python-boto. It can be installed
via easy_install from setuptools as well: simply easy_install boto.
The boto library is more complete, and is more likely to properly
handle error conditions than the Amazon Example Library.

Amazon Example Library
______________________
Amazon provides an example Python library. This library provides a simple
wrapper around the Amazon web services. The code is available from 
http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=134&categoryID=47

You must download, unpack, and place the s3-example-libraries/python/S3.py
file on your PYTHONPATH/sys.path. The source distribution of TileCache
includes this file in the TileCache/Caches/S3.py file. (Packagers are
encouraged to remove this file from distributions and instead depend
on the boto library described above.)
 
About TileCache
---------------
TileCache provides a Python-based web tile server, with pluggable
caching mechanisms, service frontends, and rendering backends. In the
simplest use case, TileCache requires only write access to a disk, the
ability to run Python CGI scripts, and a WMS you want to be cached. With
these resources, you can create your own local disk-based cache of any
WMS server, and use the result in any number of clients, including all
WMS-C, TMS, and WorldWind clients. Development of TileCache is supported
in part by MetaCarta. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
MetaCarta