Currently the bwauthority is quite out of date with the current python ecosystem and doesn't play nice in a dev environment. The submitted patch makes the following updates: 1) Removes the cron setup to a separate script (so running setup.sh doesn't alter your crontab) 2) Changes the shell script to use a modern pip instead of peep (peep is deprecated and hash checking is incorporated into pip as of version 8.0 (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/peep/) 3) Updated dependencies as far as possible (Elixer's last version is 0.7.1 and is only compatible with SQLAlchemy <= 0.7.8, obvious future enhancement to move away from Elixir) 4) Added a convenience script to kill all the spun up processes 5) Updated the ReadMe and the .gitignore to reflect these changes. **Trac**: **Username**: davidwf