On Nov 24, 3:02 pm, ek_wals <kboch...@copper.net> wrote: > I'm at a loss as to installing Django - and I have spent the day > reading the documentation, the FAQ etc. > I understand that I should download django, unzip and un-tar, and then > run setup.py in the resulting directory. When I do this, I get a bunch > of stuff in that directory, and nothing in my Python site-packages > directory. > > I wish to have my pure-python site packages in a separate directory, C: > \Python\site-packages, because they are not specific to one of the > Python versions I have installed. I have added a .pth file to PythonXX/ > lib/site-packages to include the 'global' packages, and a > distutils.cfg file to tell distutils about my install preferences. > > Django installs to its own directory, not to my requested directory or > even to the default 'site-packages directory. > > What am I missing?? Does Django's included setup.py just ignore such > details?
Read the manual stupid -- or in this case the Python distutils source code! It works fine -- 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.
