https://github.com/enthought/envisage

Envisage is a Python-based framework for building applications whose functionalities can be extended by adding "plug-ins".
https://github.com/enthought/envisage

Last synced: about 1 year ago
JSON representation

Envisage is a Python-based framework for building applications whose functionalities can be extended by adding "plug-ins".

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/enthought/envisage
• Owner: enthought
• License: other
• Created: 2011-04-28T15:07:06.000Z (about 15 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2025-04-25T14:54:53.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-25T15:16:46.474Z (about 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://docs.enthought.com/envisage/
• Size: 9.57 MB
• Stars: 84
• Watchers: 53
• Forks: 25
• Open Issues: 32
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGES.rst
  • License: LICENSE.txt

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

          
==========================================

envisage: extensible application framework

==========================================

Documentation: https://docs.enthought.com/envisage

Envisage is a Python-based framework for building extensible applications,

that is, applications whose functionality can be extended by adding "plug-ins".

Envisage provides a standard mechanism for features to be added to an

application, whether by the original developer or by someone else. In fact,

when you build an application using Envisage, the entire application consists

primarily of plug-ins. In this respect, it is similar to the Eclipse and

Netbeans frameworks for Java applications.

Each plug-in is able to:

- Advertise where and how it can be extended (its "extension points").

- Contribute extensions to the extension points offered by other plug-ins or

  its own.

- Create and share the objects that perform the real work of the application

  ("services").

The Envisage project provides the basic machinery of the Envisage

framework. You are free to use:

- the envisage ``CorePlugin`` available through the

  `envisage.api `__ module

- plug-ins from the envisage

  `plugins `__ module

- plug-ins from other ETS projects that expose their functionality as plug-ins

- plug-ins that you create yourself

Prerequisites

-------------

The supported versions of Python are Python >= 3.8.  Envisage requires:

* `apptools `_

* `traits `_

Envisage has the following optional dependencies:

* `Pyface `_

* `TraitsUI `_

To build the full documentation one needs:

* `Sphinx `_ version 2.1 or later.

* The `Enthought Sphinx Theme `_.