[Baypiggies] BayPIGgies meeting Thursday, May 27, 2010: Django, Lessons Learned in the startup world

[Lee Hinde]

You're working too hard. Google "installing django on snow leopard"

--
-Lee

Sorry if this is terse. I'm sending it from my phone, which encourages  
brevity.

On May 28, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Stephen Lacy <slacy at slacy.com> wrote:

> Does anyone out there have any development tips for working locally/ 
> standalone on a Django project on a Mac?
>
> Our production environment is Ubuntu+Apache+mod_wsgi+Django, and  
> when I'm developing, I use ubuntu, a replica of our database, and  
> Django's manage.py runserver.  But, our designer uses a Mac, and  
> would like to have a standalone development environment for doing  
> template work.
>
> I spent one evening looking at getting MacPorts + MySQL + Python +  
> Django, and it sure was a bear.  It was taking hours building xorg  
> from scratch, for some reason.  (i.e. via a "sudo port install  
> <somepackage>")   Our project uses several 3rd party reusable apps  
> (django-registration at the very least, but a couple others, like  
> django-haystack) so I'd like something akin to PIP on the Mac as  
> well for installing those packages.
>
> I googled around quite a bit, and didn't find an easy solution to  
> this problem.  What do you guys do?
>
> Steve
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:29 AM, wesley chun <wescpy at gmail.com> wrote:
> great info tonight about the Django ecosystem tonight!
>
> i wanted to pass along a couple additional links that may be of
> interest to some:
>
> 1. Getting pure Django apps running on Google App Engine
> see django-nonrel and djangoappengine at http://allbuttonspressed.com
>
> 2. Specifically, getting Django 1.2 running on Google App Engine
> http://goo.gl/4BmC
>
> 3. Shamless plug for the user-friendly Django book i helped write:
> http://withdjango.com
>
> cheers.
> -- wesley
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