Hi, I am pretty much against setuptools and given that pip is somewhat becoming the defacto-standard to install stuff; I'd ask Donald what can be done here (cc'ed him). I don't think it's a good idea to fix this in Django since this is imo a problem in Python itself.
Regards, Florian On Sunday, November 24, 2013 7:18:15 PM UTC+1, Remram wrote: > > Hi developers, > > On Windows, running the django-admin.py tool is painful[1], because > .py scripts are not "executable". You might be able to run it using > the full path (if Python is the default handler for .py files, which > it really shouldn't be). Most probably you'll need to copy it to your > project directory and prefix it with "python " each time. > > setuptools has a neat workaround for scripts on Windows, which works > great: it creates a wrapper binary that it puts on the PATH. I know > from previous threads that Django chose to move away from setuptools > and back to distutils, however it is easy to conditionally use this > feature if setuptools are available. That way, Windows developers that > have setuptools installed (which should be, like, all of them) will be > able to run django-admin.py easily. > > I submitted a pull request on Github[2] a month ago, then opened a > ticket[3] later on. Apart from an uncommented update from akaariai, I > didn't get any feedback. > > I'd really like to see this small change accepted. It is fairly minor > but would work towards restoring the portability that is a strength or > Python. > > Thanks for your input/reviews/time, > -- Remram > > [1] > http://stackoverflow.com/q/19593404/711380<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fstackoverflow.com%2Fq%2F19593404%2F711380&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHONyT-JhFnjXUoYr6RE0PVlmLNXQ> > > [2] > https://github.com/django/django/pull/1812<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdjango%2Fdjango%2Fpull%2F1812&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFn5zjQen9904qyUQ0NNNVIAkkq7Q> > > [3] > https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21340<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fcode.djangoproject.com%2Fticket%2F21340&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFdStShB6r58RO1Xx4kthGSYt6cGQ> > > > TL;DR: what happened to my patch? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/777236c7-e9dd-4429-b983-3a86b521c0e7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
