The django svn version is every bit as stable as 0.96.The way to ensure that nothing breaks, is to do a checkout of the svn version, and don't continually update it. The only danger with the svn version is if you update it, and a backwards incompatible change has been made. These changes are documented, but it can be a chore to continually update a project as django is updated. If you simply do one checkout, that problem is averted.
I've never seen a syntax error using manage.py, and I've used 0.96 and svn for a while now.
When the next official release is released, that would be the time to go from your locked svn checkout and make any changes for compatibility sake.
I inherited a django app at work that was done by someone who no longer works here, and I've needed to make only a few changes to get it current. It was written against 0.96, and I'm updating it to work with svn.
I use django svn in production on my personal server without any problems.I don't know much about other web frameworks, as django is my first experience with a framework.
On my own debian box...
canton:~# apt-get install python-django
<snip... all is well>
canton:~# python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Jan 3 2008, 13:36:28)
[GCC 4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Debian 4.2.2-4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import django
>>> django.VERSION
(0, 96.099999999999994, None)
>>> django-admin.py startproject mysite
File "<stdin>", line 1
django-admin.py startproject mysite
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>
canton:~# django-admin.py startproject mysite
-bash: django-admin.py: command not found
canton:~# django-admin startproject mysite
canton:~# ls mysite
__init__.py manage.py settings.py urls.py
canton:~#
*in debian, it is called django-admin and not django-admin.py
*Call django-admin from the command line. It should be in your path.
*The django 96.099....994 seems to happen to my vanilla django-0.96.1
straight from the tarball. A different way to check the version would be
to open a python interpretor, import django, type django.__file__
that will tell you where the __init__.py is located for django. That is
the file that contains the VERSION variable.
*Feel free to e-mail me off list if you want some help with django
specific to the debian context.
Jeff Anderson LRP wrote:
...well, the local folks are friendly enough. Last I washed upon these sands, capsized on the first leg of my maiden voyage, I was advised that my vessel, django 0.95.1-1, running on Linux Debian Etch, was a relic beyond salvage. So back in port, I smash a magnum of champagne across the bow of my sleek new django 0.96-1.1, running on Linux Debian Lenny, and cheer as she slides down the weighs. I fire up Python (2.4.4), import django, and enter django.VERSION... oops? What's this 0.96.09999....994? Supposed to be 0.96.1-1. Well let's try django-admin.py startproject mysite... Whooo ABANDON SHIP! SyntaxError: invalid syntax. So here I am again... stranded on the sand. Ok, ok... I know you Windows salts have no sympathy for we who choose Linux. More's the pity. And we who choose Debian are a still smaller minority. But, damnit, hold the flame war, in my experience, Debian has the best package management system on the globe. It let's us choose stable, testing, and unstable versions of our applications. In my case, I value stability in my web applications. But 'pears to me that django doesn't offer that, at least for my crowd. Indeed, during my previous visit to these climes, one bystander urged me to download the SVN version of django for the latest and the greatest. But this advice scares the socks off me. How can I promise my clients stability when I'm gamboling on the cutting edge? Moreover, it makes me nervous as heck to consider compromising my file system with apt-alien files, when apt and aptitude have served me so well over these five years. Indeed, I've never run into the kinds of problems of starting up a new application that I've seen with django. So where do I turn? Pylons? TurboGears? Ruby on Rails? Wait until django stabilizes sufficiently for conservative folks like me? Advisories welcomed. All the best, Lloyd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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