ErisMUD 0.5.1

ErisMUD is a MUD engine written from scratch in Python using SQLite for storing 
data. ErisMUD is distributed under the GPL. It is a work-in-progress but already
has many features:

- Creating/destroying/listing rooms, items, NPCs with a single command.
- Adding aliases to objects.
- Optional ANSI colors.
- Basic health/damage system.
- Talking using the "say" command, chatting using the "chat" command.
- Cloning items, dropping them on the floor, getting them, giving them to other players.
- Instances: a single object may be cloned multiple times and every instance is
  independent.
- Easily add or modify help files with a single command.
- Logging.

Read the TUTORIAL file for a quick overview of the possibilities.

== INSTALL ==
No install is required for ErisMUD, other than Python 2.5. If you have an older Python release, 
you will have to download the pysqlite [http://www.pysqlite.org] module for that version.

To start the server, simply edit the parameters in eris.conf
and the login welcome message in motd.txt and start the server by running:
# python eris.py

Don't forget to add your player name to the 'coders' file (one per line) in
order to use the coder-only commands.

== REQUIREMENTS ==
- Python 2.5 
  *or*
- Python 2.3+   (http://python.org)
- SQLite 3.2    (http://www.sqlite.org)
- pysqlite 1.0+ (http://www.pysqlite.org)

I did not test ErisMUD with previous versions.

== KNOWN ISSUES ==

* Since handle_error() is subclassed, no python error is ever raised. This makes
  debugging difficult. Comment out SecondServSock.handle_error() in eris.py to see errors.

== AUTHORS ==

ErisMUD is written by Manuel Lanctot <sensoz@gmail.com>
Versions 0.5.1 and 0.5.2 received a lot of help and fixes from Mark Sherry.
Shoutouts to Ouroboros, misuba, Steven Vogel, Andrew Murphy/Elias, Katherine, Tiefling,
Taral, Jesse and Sean Middleditch for the great suggestions, debugging and help 
during development. Thanks to Maud for supporting me every day. If I forgot you, let me know.

== OBLIGATORY LICENSE STUFF ==

ErisMUD, a MUD engine/server written in Python.
Copyright (C) 2005 Manuel Lanctot

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY 
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A 
PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this
program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, 
Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA