Bricolage Content Management System

                   Version 1.9.0 - Develoment Track for 1.10.0

Bricolage is a full-featured, enterprise-class content management system. It
offers a browser-based interface for ease-of use, a full-fledged templating
system with complete programming language support for flexibility, and many
other features. It operates in an Apache/mod_perl environment, and uses the
PostgreSQL RDBMS for its repository.

This is a development release of Bricolage.

Be warned that, as a development release of Bricolage, this version will have
bugs. We welcome people testing this release, but anyone using Bricolage in a
production environment is strongly encouraged to await the arrival of 1.10.0,
likely in late October or early November.

GETTING STARTED
===============

Before installing Bricolage, be sure to read the platform-specific README file
relevant to your operating system, if there is one.

For installation instructions, see INSTALL. Once Bricolage has been installed,
this file will also be available via the Bric::Admin man page.

For copying information, see License. Once Bricolage has been installed, this
file will also be available via the Bric::License man page.

For the latest news, see Changes. Once Bricolage has been installed, this file
will also be available via the Bric::Changes man page.

DOCUMENTATION
=============

After you've installed Bricolage, the complete API documentation will be
available as man pages. It is also available on the Bricolage site, at
http://bricolage.cc/documentation.html. Here are a few entry points to get you
started.

For installation and system administration, see:

  Bric::Admin
  Bric::DBA
  Bric::Security

To get started using Bricolage see:

  Bric::ElementAdmin
  Bric::AssetEditing
  Bric::Alert

To learn how to use the Bricolage templating systems, see:

  Bric::Templates
  Bric::AdvTemplates
  Bric::HTMLTemplate

If you'd like to contribute to Bricolage, see:

  Bric::Hacker
  Bric::ToDo

KNOWN ISSUES
============

* Apache 1.3.28 does not work properly with Bricolage. It causes the
  connections to the PostgreSQL server to be unexpectedly dropped in such a
  way that Bricolage cannot reconnect. Please use Apache 1.3.29, instead.

Enjoy!

--The Bricolage Team