1 Roundup
2 =======
5 1. License
6 ==========
7 This software is released under the GNU GPL. The copyright is held by Bizar
8 Software Pty Ltd (http://www.bizarsoftware.com.au).
10 The stylesheet included with this package has been copied from the Zope
11 management interface and presumably belongs to Digital Creations.
14 2. Installation
15 ===============
16 For installation notes, please see the file INSTALL.TXT
19 3. Usage
20 ========
21 The system is designed to accessed through the command-line, e-mail or web
22 interface. Roundup has some useful doucmentation in its docstrings, so
23 "pydoc roundup" will give useful information.
25 3.1 Command-line
26 ----------------
27 The command-line tool is called "roundup-admin" and is used for most low-level
28 database manipulations such as:
29 . creating a database instance
30 . redefining the list of products ("create" and "retire" commands)
31 . adding users manually, or setting their passwords ("create" and "set")
32 . other stuff - run it with no arguments to get a better description of
33 what it does.
36 3.2 E-mail
37 ----------
38 See the docstring at the start of the roundup/mailgw.py source file.
39 Use "pydoc roundup.mailgw".
42 3.3 Web
43 -------
44 Hopefully, this interface is pretty self-explanatory...
46 Index views may be modified by the following arguments:
47 :sort - sort by prop name, optionally preceeded with '-'
48 to give descending or nothing for ascending sorting.
49 :group - group by prop name, optionally preceeded with '-' or
50 to sort in descending or nothing for ascending order.
51 :filter - selects which props should be displayed in the filter
52 section. Default is all.
53 :columns - selects the columns that should be displayed.
54 Default is all.
55 propname - selects the values the node properties given by propname
56 must have (very basic search/filter).
60 3. Design
61 =========
62 See the information in the "doc" directory.
66 4. TODO
67 =======
68 Most of the TODO items are captured in comments in the code. In summary:
70 in general:
71 . more unit tests
72 . more back-ends
73 . better error handling (nicer messages for users)
74 . possibly revert the entire damn thing to 1.5.2 ... :(
75 hyperdb:
76 . transaction support
77 . more efficient reverse lookups
78 roundupdb:
79 . split the file storage into multiple dirs?
80 roundup-mailgw:
81 . errors as attachments
82 roundup-server:
83 . check the source file timestamps before reloading
84 cgi_client
85 . keep form fields in form on bad submission - only clear it if all ok
88 5. Known Bugs
89 =============
91 date:
92 . date subtraction doesn't work correctly "if the dates cross leap years,
93 phases of the moon, ..."
96 6. Author
97 =========
98 richard@users.sourceforge.net
101 7. Thanks
102 =========
103 Well, Ping, of course ;)
105 Anthony Baxter, for some good first-release feedback. And then continuing
106 support through development on sourceforge.