lesana - a collection manager

lesana is a python3 library to organize collections of various kinds. It is designed to have a data storage / serialization format that is friendly to git and other VCSs, but decent performances.

To reach this aim it uses yaml as its serialization format, which is easy to store in a VCS, share between people and syncronize between different computers, but it also keeps an index of this data in a local xapian database in order to allow for fast searches.

lesana supports collections of any kind, as long as their entries can be described with a mostly flat dictionary of fields of the types described in the documentation file field_types.

Some example collection schemas are provided, but one big strenght of lesana is the ability to customize your collection with custom fields by simply writing a personalized settings.yaml.

Installation

The recommended way to install lesana is to use the packages available for your distribution; see e.g. the list of distributions that provide lesana on repology.

Alternatively, the source code for lesana can be downloaded from the git repository at https://git.sr.ht/~valhalla/lesana; and releases are made on pypi.

lesana expects to run on a POSIX-like system and requires the following dependencies:

python3
xapian
ruamel.yaml
jinja2
dateutil
GitPython optional, to add git support.

Under debian (and derivatives), the packages to install are:

apt install python3-jinja2 python3-ruamel.yaml python3-xapian \
            python3-dateutil python3-git

lesana can be run in place from the git checkout / extracted tarball; to use setup.py you will also need setuptools (e.g. from the python3-setuptools package under debian and derivatives).

Contributing

Lesana is hosted on sourcehut:

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 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 Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.