NAME: Cement

AUTHOR: BJ Dierkes <wdierkes@5dollarwhitebox.org>

DESCRIPTION:

Cement is an advanced CLI Application Framework for Python. It promotes code
re-use by way of a plugin system that enables plugins to be shared between any 
application built on Cement.  The MVC and overall framework design is very 
much inspired by the TurboGears2 web framework.  Its goal is to introduce a 
standard, and feature-full platform for both simple and complex command line
applications as well as support rapid development needs without sacrificing
quality.

At a minimum, Cement configures the following features for every application:
::
     * Multiple Configuration file parsing (default: /etc, ~/)
     * Command line argument and option parsing
     * Dual Console/File Logging Support
     * Internal and External (3rd Party) Plugin support
     * Basic "hook" support
     * Model/View/Controller support for advanced application design
     * Text output rendering with Genshi templates
     * Json output rendering allows other programs to access your CLI-API
    

The above provides any level developer with a solid, and fully functional 
cli application from the very start with more or less a single command via 
the paster utility.  Cement brings an end to the 'hack it out, and [maybe] 
clean it up later' routine that we all find ourselves in under deadlines.

MORE INFORMATION:

All documentation is available from the official website:

    http://builtoncement.org
    
    
LICENSE:

The Cement CLI Application Framework is Open Source and is distributed under 
the MIT License.  Please see the LICENSE file included with this software.  

The 'cement.core' package includes a backport of pkgutil from the Python 
standard library in order to make the pkgutil.get_data() function available 
for Python < 2.6.  This file (./src/cement.core/backports/pkgutil.py) is 
licensed under the Python Software Foundation license version 2.0.  Please see 
the LICENSE.psf file included with this software (./src/cement/LICENSE.psf).