
   This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a
   certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

The Python Desktop Server is a web application framework that uses several
techniques to create a personal server product that can be used to create
weblogs, websites, middleware solutions or just weird hacks.

For the license under that this software is distributed, read LICENSE.

For an overview of contained modules look into the file OVERVIEW.

For an installation instruction read the file INSTALL-FROM-SOURCE.

For better documentation of what this software actually does and how it
accomplishes it, go to http://pyds.muensterland.org/ or - more content, but
mostly in german - http://muensterland.org/users/0000006/ or ask me :-)

Since I am a quite reluctant documentation writer, many parts of the system
are heavily underdocumented. The best documentation is the source, but that
might not be what you need. But the easiest way to learn is to jump in and
give it a try. And write down what you discovered so I can include it in
the package ;-)

There are some resources for developer interested in the inner workings
of the PyDS:

Mailinglist: http://www.westfalen.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pyds-dev
CVS Tree: http://kenny.gws-online.de/cgi-bin/cvsweb/PyDS/
RSS Feed for CVS checkins: http://kenny.gws-online.de/~gb/pyds-rss.xml

Current sources can be checked out of CVS via anonymous CVS:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@kenny.gws-online.de:/pyds login

password is "anoncvs"

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@kenny.gws-online.de:/pyds co PyDS

This gives you the working tree that usually is one version above what is
available in the pyds-latest.tar.gz.

People who helped creating this software:

   Phillip Pearson - his PyCS gave the infrastructure to build on
   Hal Wine - he helped with getting it going under Windows

In 0.4.16, Hal was accidently named "Hal Winer" - maybe some freudian slip
on the fact that Dave Winers Radio Userland gave me the idea what to implement.
So I think I should send thanks to Dave, too, for having the idea and the
implementation first, so I had something to copy ideas from :-)

Other contributors are named in the changelog. Thanks go out to you all!
