Hi developers, On Windows, running the django-admin.py tool is painful[1], because .py scripts are not "executable". You might be able to run it using the full path (if Python is the default handler for .py files, which it really shouldn't be). Most probably you'll need to copy it to your project directory and prefix it with "python " each time.
setuptools has a neat workaround for scripts on Windows, which works great: it creates a wrapper binary that it puts on the PATH. I know from previous threads that Django chose to move away from setuptools and back to distutils, however it is easy to conditionally use this feature if setuptools are available. That way, Windows developers that have setuptools installed (which should be, like, all of them) will be able to run django-admin.py easily. I submitted a pull request on Github[2] a month ago, then opened a ticket[3] later on. Apart from an uncommented update from akaariai, I didn't get any feedback. I'd really like to see this small change accepted. It is fairly minor but would work towards restoring the portability that is a strength or Python. Thanks for your input/reviews/time, -- Remram [1] http://stackoverflow.com/q/19593404/711380 [2] https://github.com/django/django/pull/1812 [3] https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/21340 TL;DR: what happened to my patch? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMto89DFXZ5BHhgx3C%2BKwFihJfm_gVAyBW4HU5KqCjAyMybxkw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
