This is a work in progress, begun July 2009, with the following goals.

Goals

• Cross-platform (with no non-python code)
• Easy to use (run and forget) and configure
• Feature-complete (Chat rooms, Private Chat, Search, Interests, handling peer requests, etc)

Tested and runs on:

• i686 Linux
• Windows XP

Working Features

• Chat Rooms
• Private Chats (including Offline private messages)
• Normal Searches, Room searches, User searches
• Custom port

Unimplemented Features

• Tunneled Messages
• Privileges
• Handling of peer connections
• Distributed searches
• Wishlist searches
• Private Chatrooms

Although, this server will probably not be able to handle as many users as the official server, it is hoped that its nature will fill a niche (small private groups) that Soulfind (due to being written in D) still hasn't filled.

Usage

run ./soulserver.py, or to use a different port, try: ./soulserver.py --port=2240

soulserver will create binary (python data) files in the current directory with cPickle to store data between instances.

These files include (as of r27):

• userlist.db
• privatemessages.db
• rooms.db

If you run more than one instance at once, bad things will happen with those data files.

I'll set up some sort of config storage system later.