Dear Florian, Thanks so much for your update/feedback.
I updated the update here: https://github.com/elena/django-news-podcast/issues/1 Thanks again! Elena On Sunday, December 29, 2013 8:10:30 PM UTC+11, Florian Apolloner wrote: > > 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/3050acc2-266f-4d9b-a9b7-f9043dd46664%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
