Re: Modifying Handler to support multiple customized, inheriting clients

2009-02-04 Thread bbeaudreault
Russ, Thanks so much for the thorough response and explanation. As you can probably tell, I am a bit new to Django. :) You're right, I have been interpreting django as "some monolithic block that needs to be installed." Your insight certainly grants me a whole new perspective and gives me a lo

Re: Modifying Handler to support multiple customized, inheriting clients

2009-02-04 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:39 AM, bbeaudreault wrote: > > Sorry to spam, but in re-reading my post I realized that I assumed > people know what I mean by "Shared Code." That's not the unclear bit. The unclear bit is your terminology and how your are interpreting it. What, exactly, is a "Django han

Re: Modifying Handler to support multiple customized, inheriting clients

2009-02-04 Thread bbeaudreault
Sorry to spam, but in re-reading my post I realized that I assumed people know what I mean by "Shared Code." Basically I would have one main code-base that will contain code that all clients inherit from. By default a client would just be running straight off that "shared" code-base, so 2 new cl

Re: Modifying Handler to support multiple customized, inheriting clients

2009-02-04 Thread bbeaudreault
Note: I could just make one big app, and deploy it separately for all my clients. But I want to be able to easily roll out big changes to all my clients, without having to replicate code a manually across them. That's why a Shared -> Client inheritance handler type of thing would work perfectly

Modifying Handler to support multiple customized, inheriting clients

2009-02-04 Thread bbeaudreault
Ok, yea. Sorry for the title, it is hard to generalize this question enough to be short like that. Anyway, at the company I work at we use mod_perl, and we have clients. Our code-base is set up like this: Shared Code -> Client Code The client code inherits and overrides shared code. So if in