I am very happy to finally release the first public version of Argonaut, my lightweight blogging engine based on Python, Pylons and many other established components. This release has a version number of 0.2.0 and is considered alpha stage. Even though I run this site on it, it is mainly meant for developers and not end users. It is released under the FreeBSD license and as such is free to use, modify and distribute.

 

Argonaut has basic blog engine functionality and in fact looks and works very much like this site after installed. Later on an admin panel will be added for easy customization of styles and content. At the moment this customization needs to be done on the file and database level.

 

Argonaut can easily be installed using Python setuptools, either from a local file or from the Python Package Index where the project is also hosted. Please check the information there about installing and from the same page you can download an egg file or the source code. Egg files exist for Python 2.6 at the moment, but I will build other versions soon. If you would like to see the SVN repository for Argonaut, you can find it here.

 

As always, please do not hesitate to send feedback either via this site or directly by email.