I also recommend the enterprisedb distribution. I don't recall rebuilding python for snow lion, but it's been awhile...I have also noticed that sqllite does not enforce all constraints, so it's good to start with postgres sooner rather than later...I can't help you with apache...
William On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Shawn Milochik <sh...@milochik.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Kolbe <maximilian.jack...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > lol. > > > > what's your recommended build for OSX though if I were to use django? > > > > > I don't know what you mean by 'build,' but my standard setup was > compiling my own Python (requires installing XCode) and using > PostgreSQL (using the EnterpriseDB installer). > > Then a virtualenv for each project with --no-site-packages used. > > That's pretty much it. I use Postgres instead of sqlite because sqlite > doesn't enforce all the constraints so, for example, unique_together > isn't enforced. When you go to production you'll get errors you missed > in development. If you use sqlite in production as well then you'll > miss the errors completely and end up with different data than you > expected. > > The only "trick" to it was compiling psycopg2 (the Postgres driver for > Python). It only works with 32-bit Python, so you'll have to compile > Python as 32-bit instead of the default 64 that comes with OS X. > Here's a blog post I wrote about how to take care of that. > http://shawnmilo.blogspot.com/2009/11/psycopg2-on-snow-leopard.html > > -- > 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 > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
