Hep 0.2
There’s a new version of Hep (now officially called Hep Messaging Server) available for download. The GUI from version 0.1 is gone, replaced by web and POP3 servers that let you configure Hep through your browser, and get messages through your e-mail client.
Sending messages to weblogs still isn’t supported, but it will be in the next couple of weeks. So Hep 0.2 doesn’t really do anything more than 0.1 did - it works as a news aggregator, and that’s about it. But internally it has a lot of new features - built in POP3 and web servers, support for multiple users, and a cleaned up API, which gives me a good platform to build on.
Now that it doesn’t have its own client interface, Hep should run on any operating system that supports Python and the Python standard libraries. I’ve been developing it on Linux, but this morning I tested it on Windows and it ran, without errors, the first try. Hooray for Python!
