Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-21 Thread nichyoung
To clarify the problems installing eggs to non-default locations: On having to use eggs again I've discovered that this can be a problem in that you only packages installed in "site" directories (such as site-packages) can be autoloaded. Prior to version 0.6a1 ez_install did not recognize that m

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-16 Thread nichyoung
On thinking about it the problems were with easy install's use of .pth files rather than with eggs - only ever having used eggs in combination with easy install I'm almost certainly thinking of that. Nick

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-15 Thread Sune Kirkeby
On 9/15/05, nichyoung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are some issues with the Python Egg sys.path magic where > installing somewhere other than the default python path (eg: > usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages). Hmm... Okay. I've never had any problems, with the eggs I've used. And I installed

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-15 Thread nichyoung
There are some issues with the Python Egg sys.path magic where installing somewhere other than the default python path (eg: usr/lib/python2.x/site-packages). That's probably a fairly common requirement for Django users on shared hosting so using standard .eggs might not be the best solution. Nic

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-15 Thread Sune Kirkeby
On 9/13/05, Jacob Kaplan-Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > or may not be good in the long term. Personally, I think it would be > cool to load apps from ZIP files (like JARs) so that an app is a > single package... Or Python Eggs; which are zip-files named .egg, with some machinery for getting d

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-13 Thread Bryan L. Fordham
> - We need to fix on a good structure for app packages. As a few > people have mentioned, the one that django-admin startapp creates may > or may not be good in the long term. Personally, I think it would be > cool to load apps from ZIP files (like JARs) so that an app is a > single pac

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-13 Thread Jacob Kaplan-Moss
On Sep 12, 2005, at 9:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What if we, the community, created our own site. djangoapps.com or something. It would allow people to upload there own django apps. People could rate and comment on the apps posted there. And it would of course be written using django.

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What if we, the community, created our own site. djangoapps.com or something. It would allow people to upload there own django apps. People could rate and comment on the apps posted there. And it would of course be written using django.

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-09 Thread Jason F. McBrayer
On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 19:21 -0700, Jason Huggins wrote: > Jason F. McBrayer wrote: > > Hi. I've more-or-less finished a django app that might be useful to > > other people > > > I'd like to package this for other people in a way that is as convenient > > for them as possible, while not requiring

Re: Packaging django apps

2005-09-08 Thread Jason Huggins
Jason F. McBrayer wrote: > Hi. I've more-or-less finished a django app that might be useful to > other people > I'd like to package this for other people in a way that is as convenient > for them as possible, while not requiring too much work from me. So, > what do people expect from a third-pa

Packaging django apps

2005-09-08 Thread Jason F. McBrayer
Hi. I've more-or-less finished a django app that might be useful to other people --- it's a feed reader similar to feedonfeeds, except that it is multiuser, supports categories, and is more tolerant of invalid feeds (thanks to the wonderful feedparser -- feedparser.org). It's basically functiona