> > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:48 AM, bkline <bob.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jul 18, 5:25 pm, Andre Terra <andrete...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Really? It would be better if I went back to the days where we all > > built everything from the source? Do all Django users running on > > Linux (which I assume is the platform for the majority of > > installations) build all the software on their servers and handle all > > of the dependencies by hand? > > nope. I, for one, use pip for the package management related to django > (and python). > > Like I said, installing python-django isn't canonical, but no body said it's inherently wrong.
It's standard practice among the Python community to install and manage packages through either pip, easy_install or other python tools. Creating isolated virtual environments with custom PYTHONPATHs is very common as well. Having said that, I wonder why [1] i'm still finding Django 1.2 as the shipped version for the Debian's stable release. Are you running wheezy by any chance? Regards, AT [1] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/python-django -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
