[PyCS-devel] And now for something completely different ...

[Georg B. <gb...@mu...>]

Hi!

Just thought I first tell you here, as it might be something of interest 
for you. What happened? I hacked the last days quite heavy. Didn't do 
much PyCS work, though, but instead PyDS. Yep, PyDS :-)

As a supplement to the Python Community Server, now there is a Python 
Desktop Server. It's actually mostly an implementation of an application 
much like Radio Userland, but in Python. And for Posix systems. It's 
still alpha, but it is useable, as you can see at

http://muensterland.org/users/0000006/

The page is german, an english one is at http://pyds.muensterland.org/, 
but that was done earlier today and so uses an older version of PyDS and 
has maybe some broken links. At that site you can download the current 
version. Usually it's a daily snapshot, but I just made it current.

What is implemented:

- weblog editing, categories, rendering, upstreaming (in the background)
- preferences and preferences-hooks for tools
- dynamic userdefined macros
- online documentation of tool API
- templating using Cheetah templates
- theoretically themeable, although currently done by hand
- dynamically installed tools
- eventlog
- full translations for english and german
- almost but not fully without documentation :-)

I currently still use Radio for now, but that's just for now - I don't 
have stories implemented yet, and I would need them to transfer all my 
stuff to PyDS. And the News Aggregator isn't implemented yet, but there 
one can use AmphetaDesk (and make a little patch to the template of 
AmphetaDesk to post to PyDS).

Would be fun if some of you using Posix systems (some BSD flavor, Linux 
or Mac OS X - actually I am developing both on Mac OS X and Linux) would 
try it out. Installation instructions are given in the Archive.

When there is enough to discuss I can set up a mailing list for it, so 
we don't flood Phils pycs-devel, but I thought you to be a good targeted 
audience for first experiments :-)

Comments?

bye, Georg