maybe this make no sense to you but what about making a custom Linux liveCD with everything you need installed. All the end-user has to do is know how to boot from CD, no install, nothing left on their systems.
Facundo Joseph Heck wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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 > > > > > > > > -- AMV Multiviajes Argentina Esmeralda 847 Piso 12 Of. 'G' C1007ABI - Buenos Aires Argentina Tel: +54 11 5031-3060 / 3061 Fax: +54 11 4313-6141 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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