Just so we are all on the same page here (summarizing discussions from IRC etc):
* We are not going to support setuptools and distutils, this makes the setupprocess difficult to debug and test imo. * Given Donald's "okay" we might switch to setuptools completely * There seems to be a bug in pip when installing a wheel, which renders the django-admin.exe unusable on windows, help welcome * PR for this issue is now at: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2116 [The original didn't work at all] Cheers, 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 > [2] https://github.com/django/django/pull/1812 > [3] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21340 > > 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/50fda77d-41c6-4e6b-92d6-585ce2ffd201%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
