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+==============
+LodgeIt Readme
+==============
+
+Lodgeit implements a pastebin and some scripts to paste the service.
+
+
+Installation
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+LodgeIt requires at least Python 2.5 to work correctly. Next to this LodgeIt has
+quite a few of dependencies as well as a nice bootstrap process. This is documentated
+on the following slides.
+
+Dependencies and virtual environment
+====================================
+
+To get LodgeIt work properly we need those dependencies: Python (at least 2.5),
+python-setuptools and mercurial.
+
+For Ubuntu (or any Debian based distribution) use ``aptitude`` to install::
+
+    aptitude install python-dev python-setuptools python-virtualenv mercurial
+
+Now we can install LodgeIt. But first we need to check out LodgeIt from the
+mercurial repository. To do that you create a new folder ``lodgeit-dev`` in your
+projects directory and change into it. There we initialize the virtual
+environment and check out LodgeIt (main branch)::
+
+	hg clone http://dev.pocoo.org/hg/lodgeit-main lodgeit
+
+Right before we can initialize the virtual environment we need to install some
+development packages to compile the python imaging library.
+
+For Ubuntu again ``aptitude`` (as root)::
+
+    sudo aptitude install build-essential
+    apt-get build-dep python-imaging
+
+Now it's possible to install the virtual environment. This is done with a simple
+Python command::
+
+    # assumed that you are located in lodgeit-dev/lodgeit
+    python scripts/make-bootstrap.py > ../bootstrap.py
+    cd ..
+    # make sure that the virtualenv is not activated. If yes, execute `deactivate`
+    python bootstrap.py .
+
+You are ready to run now.
+
+Database and other things
+=========================
+
+We are now ready to enter the virtual environment (assumed you are located in
+``lodgeit-dev/lodgeit``)::
+
+    . ../bin/activate
+
+LodgeIt initializes it's database per default on /tmp/lodgeit.db, you can change
+that path in the manage.py by modifiing ``dburi``.
+
+Now start the development server::
+
+    python manage runserver
+
+Enjoy!
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    Lodgeit Bootstrap Creation Script
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    Creates a bootstrap script for LodgeIt
+"""
+from virtualenv import create_bootstrap_script
+
+
+EXTRA_TEXT = """
+import os
+
+def after_install(options, home_dir):
+    easy_install('Jinja2', home_dir)
+    easy_install('Werkzeug', home_dir)
+    easy_install('Pygments', home_dir)
+    easy_install('SQLAlchemy', home_dir)
+    easy_install('simplejson', home_dir)
+    easy_install('Babel', home_dir)
+    easy_install('PIL', home_dir)
+
+
+def easy_install(package, home_dir, optional_args=None):
+    optional_args = optional_args or []
+    cmd = [os.path.join(home_dir, 'bin', 'easy_install')]
+    cmd.extend(optional_args)
+    # update the environment
+    cmd.append('-U')
+    cmd.append(package)
+    call_subprocess(cmd)
+"""
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    print create_bootstrap_script(EXTRA_TEXT)