Re: how to make a small change for apps installed under /site-packages dir

2012-02-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:23 AM, bruno desthuilliers wrote: > Depends on how much you need to modify the third part app. Forking the > app is sometimes the best solution, but it means you'll have a hard > time keeping in sync with the original code when bugfixes and new > features will be released.

Re: how to make a small change for apps installed under /site-packages dir

2012-02-09 Thread bruno desthuilliers
On Feb 8, 7:01 pm, Tom Lesters wrote: > > Generally speaking, using virtualenv (no-site-packages) + pip (with a > > requirement file you keep in your project) is a GoodPractice(tm) when > > it comes to dependencies. > > I'm actually using virtuallenv + pip now, thanks for advice anyways! GoodBoy(

Re: how to make a small change for apps installed under /site-packages dir

2012-02-08 Thread Tom Lesters
> Generally speaking, using virtualenv (no-site-packages) + pip (with a > requirement file you keep in your project) is a GoodPractice(tm) when > it comes to dependencies. I'm actually using virtuallenv + pip now, thanks for advice anyways! > Daniel already provided the simplest solution for this

Re: how to make a small change for apps installed under /site-packages dir

2012-02-06 Thread bruno desthuilliers
On Feb 5, 6:16 pm, Tom Lesters wrote: > hi all, > > I installed an app called idios into python2.6/site-packages/idios dir, Which is possibly not a great idea... as you now know . Generally speaking, using virtualenv (no-site-packages) + pip (with a requirement file you keep in your project) is

Re: how to make a small change for apps installed under /site-packages dir

2012-02-05 Thread Daniel Hilton
On 5 February 2012 17:16, Tom Lesters wrote: > hi all, > > I installed an app called idios into python2.6/site-packages/idios dir, > > now I need to make a small change, adding the following line(just for > purpose of explaining this question) > @login_required > to one of the functions defined in