Saku-Extreme - a clone of P2P anonymous BBS shinGETsu

It was merged into Saku.

Authors

• (main) Satoshi Fukutomi [email protected]
• sbwhitecap
• (apollo) replaceable anonymous.
• (compatible) A shinGETsu user.
• (thumbnail patch) A shinGETsu user.
• (imghdr patch) A shinGETsu user.

Contributers

• (run_cgi) Python Software Foundation.
• (SimpleGzipFile) Python Software Foundation.
• (Cheetah) The Cheetah Development Team: Tavis Rudd, Mike Orr, Ian Bicking, Chuck Esterbrook.
• (jQuery) The jQuery Foundation.
• (Twitter Bootstrap) Twitter.
• (HTML5 Shiv) @afarkas @jdalton @jon_neal @rem

WebSite

• http://www.shingetsu.info/

Saku stands for "Shingetsu Another Keen Utility". Both the word "saku" and "shingetsu" mean the new moon in Japanese.

Agreement

Agree following terms and join shinGETsu network.

• Descrive your license in your articles. Or they are open, public and/or free: anyone can use, modify and/or distribute them.
• Do not use the network for illegality.
• Do not use the network at the cost of othor peolpe.

Description

• Saku is a P2P anonymous BBS works on Python.
• We confirm that Saku works on CPython 2.6 on GNU/Linux. Saku may not work on MacOS(ver.9 or before).
• The features of shinGETsu are...
  • 2ch.net style interface
  • Wiki style hyperlink
  • IRC style cache
  • Uploader

Saku requires

• Python (ver.2.4 or later)
• Cheetah (ver.2.0rc7 or later) if you install Saku
• PIL (Python Imaging Libraty) if you need

Usage Saku without install

1. Open port 8000/tcp.
2. Edit file/saku.ini.
3. Start with % python ./saku.py -v
4. Browse http://localhost:8000/.
5. Stop with ^C.

Usage Saku with install

1. Install Cheetah.

2. Open port 8000/tcp.

3. Compile and install.

    # make install
   

   You can use PREFIX option for make, and use setup.py directly. If your system do not read modules in /usr/bin/local, do

    # ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/shingetsu \
            /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages
   

4. Configration files are installed into /usr/local/share/doc/saku/sample. You shoud install them:

    # cp saku.init /usr/local/etc/init.d/saku
    # cp sample.ini /usr/local/etc/saku/saku.ini
   

   and so on. The paths of config files are set in saku.ini, they are in /usr/local/etc/saku by defaults. saku.ini are loaded from following paths and the later settings have a priority.

    * /usr/local/etc/saku/saku.ini
    * /etc/saku/saku.ini
    * ~/.saku/saku.ini
   

5. Setup user and directories refering config files.

6. Start with

    # /usr/local/etc/init.d/saku start
   

7. Browse http://localhost:8000/.

8. Stop with

    # /usr/local/etc/init.d/saku stop
   

9. Run /usr/local/bin/saku for user application.

Acknowledge

• The design is made referring to Vojta and Winny.
• I learned how to handle file name from YukiWiki written by Hiroshi Yuki.
• Module apollo.py is was made referring to apollo.c written by replaceable anonymous.
• Popup JavaScript was made referring to Kindan-no Tubo by Zero corp.
• XLST was made reffring to Landscape.