Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: Mezzanine
Version: 0.4
Summary: An open source content management platform built using the Django framework.
Home-page: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/
Author: Stephen McDonald
Author-email: stephen.mc@gmail.com
License: BSD
Description: ========
        Overview
        ========
        
        Mezzanine is a content management platform built using the `Django`_
        framework. It is BSD licensed and designed to provide both a consistent
        interface for managing content, and a simple architecture that makes diving
        in and hacking on the code as easy as possible.
        
        Its goal is to resemble something like `Wordpress`_, with an intuitive
        interface for managing pages and blog posts. Mezzanine takes a different
        approach from other Django applications in this space like `Pinax`_ or
        `Mingus`_ that glue together a lot of reusable apps, instead opting to
        provide most of its functionality included with the project by default.
        
        Features
        ========
        
        On top of all the usual features provided by Django such as MVC architecture,
        ORM, templating, caching and the automatic admin interface, Mezzanine
        provides the following features.
        
        * Hierarchical page navigation
        * Save as draft and preview on site
        * Scheduled publishing
        * Drag-n-drop page ordering
        * WYSIWYG editing
        * API for custom content types
        * SEO friendly URLs and meta data
        * Search engine and API
        * Mobile device detection and templates
        * Blogging engine
        * Tagging
        * One step migration from other blogging engines
        * Built-in threaded comments, or:
        * `Disqus`_ integration
        * `Gravatar`_ integration
        * `Google Analytics`_ integration
        * `Twitter`_ feed integration
        * `bit.ly`_ integration
        * Sharing via Facebook or Twitter
        * Custom templates per page or blog post
        * Built-in test suite
        
        The Mezzanine admin dashboard:
        
        .. image:: http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3su7jFBHM1qa0qji.png
        
        Dependencies
        ============
        
        Apart from `Django`_ itself, Mezzanine has no explicit dependencies but is
        designed to be used most effectively in conjunction with the following
        libraries.
        
        * `setuptools`_
        * `Python Imaging Library`_ (PIL)
        * `django-grappelli`_ <= 2.0
        * `django-filebrowser`_ <= 3.0
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        Assuming you have `setuptools`_ installed, the easiest method is to install
        directly from pypi by running the following command, which will also attempt
        to install the dependencies mentioned above::
        
        $ easy_install -U mezzanine
        
        Otherwise you can download Mezzanine and install it directly from source::
        
        $ python setup.py install
        
        Once installed, the command ``mezzanine-project`` should be available which
        can be used for creating a new Mezzaine project in a similar fashion to
        ``django-admin.py``::
        
        $ mezzanine-project project_name
        
        You can then run your project with the usual Django steps::
        
        $ cd project_name
        $ python manage.py syncdb
        $ python manage.py runserver
        
        Contributing
        ============
        
        Mezzanine is an open source project that is managed using both Git and
        Mercurial version control systems. These repositories are hosted on both
        `Github`_ and `Bitbucket`_ respectively, so contributing is as easy as
        forking the project on either of these sites and committing back your
        enhancements.
        
        Support
        =======
        
        For general questions or comments, please join the
        `mezzanine-users`_ mailing list. To report a bug or other type of issue,
        please use the `Github issue tracker`_.
        
        Sites Using Mezzanine
        =====================
        
        * `Citrus Agency`_
        
        Quotes
        ======
        
        * "Who came up with the name Mezzanine? I love it, like a platform between the client's ideas and their published website. Very classy!" - `swhite`_
        
        .. _`Django`: http://djangoproject.com/
        .. _`Wordpress`: http://wordpress.org/
        .. _`Pinax`: http://pinaxproject.com/
        .. _`Mingus`: http://github.com/montylounge/django-mingus
        .. _`setuptools`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
        .. _`Python Imaging Library`: http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
        .. _`django-grappelli`: http://code.google.com/p/django-grappelli/
        .. _`django-filebrowser`: http://code.google.com/p/django-filebrowser/
        .. _`Disqus`: http://disqus.com/
        .. _`Gravatar`: http://gravatar.com/
        .. _`Google Analytics`: http://www.google.com/analytics/
        .. _`Twitter`: http://twitter.com/
        .. _`bit.ly`: http://bit.ly/
        .. _`Citrus Agency`: http://citrus.com.au/
        .. _`swhite`: http://bitbucket.org/swhite/
        .. _`Github`: http://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/
        .. _`Bitbucket`: http://bitbucket.org/stephenmcd/mezzanine/
        .. _`mezzanine-users`: http://groups.google.com/group/mezzanine-users
        .. _`Github issue tracker`: http://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine/issues
        
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: Framework :: Django
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: Dynamic Content
Classifier: Topic :: Internet :: WWW/HTTP :: WSGI
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
