This whole discussion is pretty much what virtualenv solves http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv
Basically, for each package that you wanna reuse, install it into the virtualenv for the project your working on. It works great. On Sep 10, 2:00 pm, Brian Jones <bkjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, it's not a solution you'd use in a larger team environment, because it > causes confusion, but if you're just trying to put off the renaming issue > (which really isn't that hard - what's wrong with that solution?), you can > just create a symbolic link to the directory on your PYTHONPATH instead of > putting the actual folder there. > > For example, I have a structure like: > > /com/ > myproj1/ > app1/ > app2/ > app3/ > pythonpath/ > app3 --> ../app3 > app2 --> ../app2 > app1 --> ../app1 > myproj1 --> ../myproj1 > > Now, /com/pythonpath is in my python path, so I can import anything > underneath that directory. If I decide to rename myproj1 to myproj1a, then > I'd just point the "myproj1" symlink at "myproj1a" instead. Like this: > > pythonpath/ > myproj1 --> ../myproj1a > > So Django will still look for, and find, myproj1, but it'll point at your > renamed directory. > > Hope this helps. Like I say, it's better form to just do the right thing up > front and do the renaming, but this can help in the interim. > > brian > > 2009/9/10 Filip Gruszczyński <grusz...@gmail.com> > > > > > > > > Your choice. I prefer the first method. Changing the imports isn't > > > terribly difficult (global find and replace) for the few times the > > > project folder gets renamed. > > > Unless of course, you are using distributed source control and want to > > have seperate repo for every larger feature. Then it gets quite messy > > ;-) > > > So, these are the only two ways? > > > -- > > Filip Gruszczyński > > -- > Brian K. Jones > Python Magazine http://www.pythonmagazine.com > My Blog http://www.protocolostomy.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
