To play with the scripts without installing, use:
make bin/irclog2html --help bin/logs2html --help
To run the test suite, use:
make test
or (even better)
detox
The testcases directory contains some sample logs, so you can try
bin/logs2html testcases
and look at testcases/index.html afterwards.
To play with the CGI script, try
IRCLOG_LOCATION=testcases bin/irclogsearch q=query
Don't worry, feel free to use buildout directly:
virtualenv python python/bin/python bootstrap.py bin/buildout bin/test bin/irclog2html --help bin/logs2html --help