[Pythonmac-SIG] Minimal Python 2.5 and Django install

[Dave Everitt]

Ned - that's great, I'll be changing the instructions accordingly  
(although time's run out for me the week). And if that's right about  
not requiring XCode, it lowers the entry barrier even further, which  
was always the intention. Will try on my (almost vanilla but with  
XCode) iMac soon as I can and maybe get a final version up sometime  
soon on the MacPython Wiki? - Dave Everitt


> In article <DA7FFF72-17AA-4525-8219-B42830412D5C at innotts.co.uk>,
>  Dave Everitt <deveritt at innotts.co.uk> wrote:
>> [SNIP] I started again and wrote an
>> 'absurdly simple' OS X 10.4 Django install guide here:
>>
>> http://ecoconsulting.co.uk/training/python/python-django-OSX.shtml
>>
>> It avoids Macports or Subversion [SNIP] complete the tutorials  
>> without
>> doing any serious development yet.
>
> A few more comments after trying things on a vanilla 10.4.10 system.
>
> One, now that the recipe doesn't use MacPorts, installing the Apple
> Developer Tools (Xcode) isn't needed.  They would only be needed to
> build any C extensions and Django doesn't appear to have any.
>
> Two, one's mileage may vary of course but I think it's much easier to
> use the power of easy_install in setuptools.  So step 3 could be
> replaced by:
>
>   [if easy_install not already available:}
>   curl http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py -O
>   python ez_setup.py
>
>   easy_install http://www.djangoproject.com/download/0.96/tarball/
>
> That's it: you're now ready for the tutorials.
>
> {Note, in theory one should be able to just type something like:
>      easy_install Django096
>  and setuptools will search the Python Package Index for the latest
> Django download.  Unfortunately, the PyPi entry for Django doesn't  
> seem
> to work with easy_install at the moment, hence the lengthier URL  
> version
> above.]
>
> In the spirit of keeping things "absurdly simple", wth the above  
> recipe
> there is no need to worry about the Django admin script not being
> executable, so you can safely remove the directions for the chmod.   
> And
> the django-admin.py script is installed into the
> /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/bin directory
> which the Python 2.5.1 installer automatically adds to one's path  
> so the
> directions to manually manipulate the PATH variable aren't needed,
> either.  And there's no need to test for SQLite.  It's just there in
> 2.5.1.
>
> Finally, I'd limit the References to just the first www.python.org mac
> link.  The others and more are referenced from there (and the one link
> isn't really relevant to current OSX stuff anyway).
>
> Thanks again for doing this.
>
> -- 
>  Ned Deily,
>  nad at acm.org