NewsBruiser ----------- Hi. Thanks for downloading NewsBruiser. To get started, put this directory somewhere in your webspace and hit the nb.cgi script in a Web browser. You'll be walked through the (quick) setup process and then you'll be able to use NewsBruiser. NewsBruiser runs fine under Python 1.5 and 2.x. Some features (like ReST formatting) require Python 2.x, but all of those are optional. NewsBruiser carries with it all the special libraries it needs, so you shouldn't have to install anything special. If you get stuck, you can consult the documentation, which is under the www/doc/ directory, or available online at http://newsbruiser.tigris.org/doc/. You can also email me with questions or problems you have. I want NewsBruiser to be the easiest to install and use of any weblog package. If you run into any problems installing it on your system, or using it afterwards, please let me know. NewsBruiser is easier than ever to extend. A lot of the basic functionality is implemented with plugins, and if you know Python it's easy to add plugins. Take a look in the nb/plugins/ directory for lots of examples. Leonard Richardson --- PS: You can drastically increase the performance of NewsBruiser by precompiling the source files. Just run the tool/compile.py script from this directory.