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+Django REST framework
+=====================
+
+Django REST framework makes it easy to build well-connected, self-describing RESTful Web APIs.
+
+Full documentation for the project is available at:
+
+http://django-rest-framework.org
+
+Issue tracking is on `GitHub <https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues>`_.
+General questions should be taken to the `discussion group <http://groups.google.com/group/django-rest-framework>`_.
+
+
+
+Installation Notes
+==================
+
+Cloning from GitHub::
+
+    git clone git@github.com:tomchristie/django-rest-framework.git
+
+
+Cloning from Bitbucket::
+
+    hg clone https://tomchristie@bitbucket.org/tomchristie/django-rest-framework
+
+
+To install django-rest-framework in a virtualenv environment::
+
+    cd django-rest-framework
+    virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute --python=python2.6 env
+    source env/bin/activate
+    pip install -r requirements.txt # django, coverage
+
+
+To run the tests::
+
+    export PYTHONPATH=.    # Ensure djangorestframework is on the PYTHONPATH
+    python djangorestframework/runtests/runtests.py
+
+
+To run the test coverage report::
+
+    export PYTHONPATH=.    # Ensure djangorestframework is on the PYTHONPATH
+    python djangorestframework/runtests/runcoverage.py
+
+
+To run the examples::
+
+    pip install -r examples/requirements.txt # pygments, httplib2, markdown
+    cd examples
+    export PYTHONPATH=..
+    python manage.py syncdb
+    python manage.py runserver
+
+
+To build the documentation::
+
+    pip install -r docs/requirements.txt   # sphinx
+    sphinx-build -c docs -b html -d docs/build docs html
+
+
+To run the tests against the full set of supported configurations::
+
+    deactivate  # Ensure we are not currently running in a virtualenv
+    tox
+
+
+To create the sdist packages::
+
+    python setup.py sdist --formats=gztar,zip
+
+
+
+Release Notes
+=============
+
+0.2.3
+
+* Fix some throttling bugs
+* X-Throttle header on throttling
+* Support for nesting resources on related models
+
+0.2.2
+
+* Throttling support complete
+
+0.2.1
+
+* Couple of simple bugfixes over 0.2.0
+  
+0.2.0
+
+* Big refactoring changes since 0.1.0, ask on the discussion group if anything isn't clear.
+  The public API has been massively cleaned up.  Expect it to be fairly stable from here on in.
+
+* `Resource` becomes decoupled into `View` and `Resource`, your views should now inherit from `View`, not `Resource`.
+
+* The handler functions on views .get() .put() .post() etc, no longer have the `content` and `auth` args.
+  Use `self.CONTENT` inside a view to access the deserialized, validated content.
+  Use `self.user` inside a view to access the authenticated user.
+
+* `allowed_methods` and `anon_allowed_methods` are now defunct.  if a method is defined, it's available.
+  The `permissions` attribute on a `View` is now used to provide generic permissions checking.
+  Use permission classes such as `FullAnonAccess`, `IsAuthenticated` or `IsUserOrIsAnonReadOnly` to set the permissions.
+
+* The `authenticators` class becomes `authentication`.  Class names change to Authentication.
+
+* The `emitters` class becomes `renderers`.  Class names change to Renderers.
+
+* `ResponseException` becomes `ErrorResponse`.
+
+* The mixin classes have been nicely refactored, the basic mixins are now `RequestMixin`, `ResponseMixin`, `AuthMixin`, and `ResourceMixin`
+  You can reuse these mixin classes individually without using the `View` class.
+
+0.1.1
+
+* Final build before pulling in all the refactoring changes for 0.2, in case anyone needs to hang on to 0.1.
+
+0.1.0
+
+* Initial release.
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