Since the subject of packaging came up, is there a jar equivalent for python?
João Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 20:09 -0400, Oliver Lavery wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>The company I work for needed to add an infrastructure component to >>django for a site we're building. Since it could be generally useful >>we'd like to release it to the public in the not-too-distant future. >>We think it's pretty cool, and can't wait to share it with everyone; >>with the huge head start we got from django we're happy to give back >>in return. The details will have to wait until the code is actually >>available though. > > > Nice. :-) > > >>In any event, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for how to >>package a (mostly) self-contained django app for distribution? We have >>a few settings, but otherwise it's merely an app that needs to live >>somewhere convenient. A patch against django.contrib is one option, >>except that that path may reside in an .egg or might be linked to svn. >>Presently we simply have our app at the root of our site, but that >>could be a bit yucky for people who have their own site in a source >>control system (if you don't, you probably should). > > > Django applications are just Python packages. That is, you need to be > able to import things from inside the application directory. There is no > requirement for it to live in a project directory or inside Django's > source or anything like that. > > This means you can ship applications just as a tarball (or egg or method > of choice) of the directory that the user can unpack wherever they > choose in their system, providing it ultimately ends up on the Python > path when the Django application is running. Include a little README > file detailing the settings that are needed and mentioning that the user > should add the location of the application directory to their > INSTALLED_APPS directory as an importable path. Simple. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
