Re: Distribute Django program to run on a local computer

[Joseph Heck]

It's a little more tricky than just packaging Django up nicely because of the external dependencies. I have a set of windows installers that I have bundled up for myself to drop onto windows machines to get them set up with a dev environment (sqlite3 based). It's a little tricker on the Mac - but only because getting all the pieces parts installed is sort of a pain (no binary installer and I haven't gone to the trouble to make one myself).

For any given platform you could make up a package and drop it around i'd expect. But it is a fair bit of work getting everything together.

-joe

On 7/31/06, Rob Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Quick version:
Is there a way to bundle up a Django application, maybe wrap an
installer around it if need be, and distribute it by CD to install and
run on a person's local system.  Preferrably cross platform (Windows
and Mac).

Long version that helps explain why we need this:
I work for a company that builds web based health education programs.
Most of our funding comes from grants.  As part of the grant review
process, the reviewers must remain anonymous and therefore, we cannot
simply send a URL to our prototype.  We've decided in the past to
distribute a "microserver" called Microweb, that can run PHP programs
from CD.  But it's Windows only, and PHP or Perl only.

We're currently in the process of evaluating other frameworks as we
migrate away from our in-house CMS to something more flexible.  I'm a
big fan of Django and have used it on a couple personal side projects
so I'd love to see if Django can work for us.  Plus, the scientists
would love the admin and we'd love how quickly we could set it up for
them.

I'm thinking SQLite would be the backend database since it's
lightweight and cross platform.  I know Django itself will run on
Windows, Linux, and Mac.  But the challenge is distributing it for an
easy, self contained install (no internet connection).

Would something like py2app work for this?

If anyone has experience with this, I'd very much appreciate some
guidance.  Also, if others are interested in the outcome, I can report
on whatever progress I make on this front.

Thanks,
Rob

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