On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 19:45 +0000, NakedHTML wrote: > Setting up everthing on Mac OS X can be frustraiting! > > It took me more than a few days to get it right on Tiger. > > Starting from scratch, with OS X 10.4.x, [...] > and then went on to the django install. It took a week of reinstalling > Tiger, but I found a recipe that works for me. More details and my > comments on the process here: http://tinyurl.com/kemhe
Nice write-up. The links to other posts will help, too. Some general rambling about this, and why it's a little difficult. There are a couple of problems we haven't quite licked with respect to documenting the Mac install process (to a greater or lesser extent, this is true for other platforms, too): (1) What assumptions do you make about the base system (what the person has installed before they start) and about the reader's level of system administration knowledge? (2) What are the possible variations? Are there particular combinations of OS version and package versions that don't work well together? Is there a "much better than others" location to get this stuff from"? As much as possible, we should point to supported sources for the software, but that requires people with knowledge to make the judgement. Part (1) is something we are slowly wrestling with more and more and it's difficult in general. If you come to Django with very minimal sys-admin skills, you want a step-by-step guide, similar to the link above and some of the links. On the other hand, if you are more experienced, you need a much shorter checklist and the detailed guide will mean important information gets lost in the middle of all the individual commands. The other problem is finding people who have solved the problem and taken notes and not made too many assumptions. If somebody is very experienced using a Mac, their installation instructions are going to miss things that other people need. If I (to pick somebody random with basically zero Mac experience) was to do it, you would get a lot of unnecessary steps that are just misleading and not best practices. So, having as many people as possible who can write up something like the above until we gradually arrive at a reasonable series of steps will be very good news. It's obviously not ideal to have to tell people "yes, it's hard. Good luck, Jim." I can only say thanks to the people who are keeping notes and willing to help out like this. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
