GOALS:

• provide an alternative to the PHP based tracker frontends such as TBDev and Gazelle
• utilize a MVC framework to create a more organized and modular tracker platform
• establish a platform for users to share modules (apps) that they write, and promote collaboration on addition to the codebase
• remain easy for users to install and modify, but not at the sake of performance
• internationalisation, easily translatable

DEPENDENCIES:

• Python 2.4 =< (not 3.x) http://python.org/download/
• Django 1.2 =< http://www.djangoproject.com/download/
• MySQL 5.1 =< http://www.mysql.com/downloads/
• mysql-python 1.2.3 =< http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/
• Solr 1.3 =< http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ (solr setup instructions @ http://docs.haystacksearch.org/dev/installing_search_engines.html#solr )
• Pysolr 2.0.9 =< http://github.com/toastdriven/pysolr
• django-haystack 1.0 =< http://haystacksearch.org/
• memcached 1.4.5 =< http://memcached.org/
• python-memcached 1.45 =< http://www.tummy.com/Community/software/python-memcached/
• queues .5 =< http://code.google.com/p/queues/
• queued_search 1.0 =< http://github.com/toastdriven/queued_search
• piston 0.2.2 =< http://bitbucket.org/jespern/django-piston/wiki/Home
• django-debug-toolbar =< http://github.com/robhudson/django-debug-toolbar
• BitTorrent-bencode =< http://pypi.python.org/pypi/BitTorrent-bencode/5.0.8 (just copy bencode.py and BTL.py into site-libs)
• Jinja2 2.5 =< http://jinja.pocoo.org/2/

SETUP:

Solr:

cd $HOME
curl -O http://apache.mirrors.tds.net/lucene/solr/1.3.0/apache-solr-1.3.0.tgz           (or more recent version of solr, 1.4.1 is the latest)
tar xvzf apache-solr-1.3.0.tgz
cd apache-solr-1.3.0/example
java -jar start.jar

# Go to your benzene root directory

python manage.py build_solr_schema > $HOME/apache-solr-1.3.0/example/solr/conf/schema.xml

MySQL:

# In mysql ('mysql -u root')

CREATE USER 'benzene_user'@'localhost';
CREATE DATABASE benzene;
GRANT ALL ON benzene.* to 'benzene_user'@'localhost';

python manage.py syncdb

Site Setup:

# Go to your benzene root directory

python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py benzene