On Jan 22, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Andrew Badr wrote: > How can I get a designer set up to be able to edit a Django project's > templates and static files with the minimum amount of effort? Django > itself is easy to get running, but a project with many external > dependencies can quickly become very hard for a less technical person > to set up, especially if they are running on an OS that's different > from the production OS and don't have VM software installed. > > One ideal would be having to send them little more than Django and the > set of templates and template contexts that they try combinations of. > Clearly it's not possible to always remove some component in general, > because even just template tags can rely on arbitrary code. But on the > other hand, anything related to asynchronous task queues like Celery, > for example, is in practice always unnecessary for the designer to do > their work. > > Is this line of thinking worth pursuing? Has anyone done something > along these lines? If not, how do you get the designer up and running?
All of our project's dependancies are defined in a requirements.txt file which can be read by pip. With the combination of virtualenv everything can be isolated preventing mucking with the global environment and leaving the designer calling for help. Since most of my projects are all built around Pinax those environments are generally pretty easy for anyone who can run a few commands on the command line. Of course on occasion you'll run into some bumps, but in most cases they are relatively minor. When it comes to dependancies such as celery I obviously ensure all that is installed via pip with the requirements.txt file. I've also been recently using http://github.com/ask/ghettoq for a database backend. This makes dealing with the queue dependancies much better since you can run it off SQLite for development. As long as the designer has access to Python 2.5+ (and your code can run on it) pretty much everything is there for the designer. Brian Rosner http://oebfare.com http://twitter.com/brosner -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
