I finally got a new release of Contentment out yesterday. I've been working on this for almost two months as I'd created bunches of nasty bugs with a few big changes I'd made recently. I've got to start using the inards of Subversion a little better (temporary branching would have made this a much smaller problem).
Anyway, with this new release the Contentment web site is again running the latest version of the software and has the latest documentation available online. Now that Contentment is working again and that I've gotten the VFS system to a very nice point, I'm going to start porting this blog and such to it. Once done, Contentment should be very nice and I'll probably start promoting it a bit more.
The latest version uses File::System as the basis for the VFS, which is much more advanced that the previous VFS system. I hope to expand the use of this system in the next release to allow for arbitrary SPOPS objects to be used as backends for the VFS.
This version also features a hooks system, which is used to implement session and context creation and also the transformation and filtering system (or rather the request has hooks that these systems are added on to). This means that themes, transformations, filters, etc. can be replaced or removed if someone doesn't like them. I think I will place the caching system here as well. Furthermore, I think the filter and transformation systems will utilize the hooks rather than the rather stupid module loading system used now. The file typing system (both for input types and for output types) will also be reimplemented using the hooks system.
Those are the two biggest changes as of this release besides the bug fixes allowing the system to actually work now. I will try to make releases more frequently in the future and will try to break the system less often. (And I need to port the old aggregator so that the Contentment web site can pull these blog entries...)
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