Beaver is available to download as a zip file. The latest released version is version 0.2.
To run Beaver you'll need not just this zip archive but also the dependencies such as Python and PyQt.
Runnable source code (24 kb) |
Beaver is copyright activityworkshop.net and licenced to you under the terms of the Gnu GPL. That means you are free to download and use it, free to look at and modify the source code, and even free to redistribute it under certain conditions (see the included license.txt file).
There is no installation. You just need to download the zip file and store it on your machine.
If you have python version 2.6+, you can run Beaver directly from the command line, like this:
python beaver_0.2.zip
But remember you must include the whole path to the Beaver file if you're not in the same directory. To make it easier, you can create a shortcut on your desktop or menu to call the above command. Or you can set up a simple bash script to call it, so you just have to type "beaver" to run it.
If you're using python version 2.5 or earlier, you can't use the direct method above. Instead, you'll have to unzip the contents of the zip file into a blank directory, and then call Beaver from the command line like this:
python __main__.py
To upgrade your python to version 2.6.x or 2.7.x, please see your system's software repositories or see python.org. Note however that Beaver in its current state won't run with python3.
If running the beaver file doesn't work, check that you have the right dependencies installed. See the dependencies page for how to get the other required software, such as the Python runtime, the Qt libraries and the PyQt bindings.
There are several additional features planned which have not yet been implemented. The current status of development is shown in the development page.
Of course any suggestions or contributions, especially Python tips and multi-lingual translation expertise, would be very gratefully received and properly acknowledged! Please get in touch by email.