Components of the Lino framework¶
Until 2021 we used GitHub (https://github.com/lino-framework) to host our source repositories. In 2021 we moved to GitLab (https://gitlab.com/lino-framework). Check Moving from GitHub to GitLab when in doubt whether your clone is up to date.
Overview diagram¶

General framework repositories¶
The lino
package¶
The lino
package contains the core of the framework and includes the
Standard Plugin Library, a plugin library with basic features like system
users, notifications, comments, printing and others. These features are
included in most real-world Lino applications.
Project homepage: https://gitlab.com/lino-framework/lino
Lino Extensions Library¶
The lino_xl
package contains the Lino Extensions Library.
Project homepage: https://github.com/lino-framework/xl
The Lino Book¶
The lino_book
package contains the source code of what you are reading
right now, plus a collection of demo projects and examples (see
lino_book.projects
), plus the main test suite for the Lino framework.
Project homepage: https://gitlab.com/lino-framework/book
Alternative front ends¶
See also About front ends.
React front end¶
ExtJS 6 front end¶
A proof of concept for a Lino front end that uses Sencha's ExtJS 6 Javascript toolkit.
OpenUI5 front end¶
A proof of concept for a Lino front end that uses SAP's OpenUI toolkit.
PyQt front end¶
A proof of concept for a Lino front end that uses the PyQt toolkit.
You can see it by saying pm qtclient
in the project directory of any Lino site.
Utilities maintained by the Lino team¶
Some packages that might be useful to non-Lino Python projects are not covered in the Lino Book because they are actually not at all related to Lino, except that Lino depends on them and that they are maintained by the Lino team:
getlino
is the Lino installer.atelier
is a minimalist "development framework", including a project management a suite of invoke commands and a set of Sphinx extensions.rstgen
is a library to generate reSTructuredText snippets.etgen
is used for generating HTML or XML via ElementTree.commondata
is an experimental project for storing and maintaining common data as Python code without any front end.