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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
-==================
-
-To clone the project from GitHub using git::
-
-    git clone git@github.com:tomchristie/django-rest-framework.git
-
-
-To clone the project from Bitbucket using mercurial::
-
-    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
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-* Throttling support complete.
-
-0.2.1
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-* 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.
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-* `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
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-* 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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