On Jan 18, 2008 12:40 PM, Matthew Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to install geodjango but have an existing django 0.96installed > on my devel server. The instructions for geodjango say check the > svn then ln -s to /path/to/sitepackages/django. My question is will this in > any way affect the current install. If I am running .96 of django and I > install geodjango which version of django am i running .96 ? > > I am confused and must admit I dont have a ton of experience installing > site-packages. Maybe I should just run python setup.py install ? >
The svn checkout of GeoDjango is a self-contained Django instance, it does not run on top of any other Django. What to do in your case depends on whether you want to just switch to GeoDjango or retain the ability to run .96 in some cases and GeoDjango in others. If you just want to switch over, you should first get rid of .96 (I assume it is already installed under site-packages) and follow the instructions to ln -s the GeoDjango svn checkout into site-packages instead. If you want to keep .96 for running old code and develop some new code with GeoDjango, then don't do the ln -s for GeoDjango, but rather manually set your PYTHONPATH to point to the svn GeoDjango checkout when you want to use that. Note that if you just switch, and you've got old code you've been running under .96, you'll need to upgrade it to account for all the backwards-incompatible changes that have been made since .96, since the svn checkout of GeoDjango will be based off a fairly recent version of svn Django. You can find the list here: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/BackwardsIncompatibleChanges Plus here: http://code.djangoproject.com/log/django/branches/gis you can see that the GeoDjango branch has merged trunk changes up through 6989, so you can track exactly what trunk changes are present in your svn checkout of GeoDjango. Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
