Pycharm is awesome. I've run it from WindowsXP/Windows7/Ubuntu/OSX and it's great.
In terms of cross platform compatibility, I also rarely run into anything which I think speaks pretty highly of Python and Django. The Virtual Environments really help a lot. Most of the development I do is locally and Pycharm offers some great tools. So even if I plan to deploy into Oracle or MySQL I'm usually just using SQLite locally. Django is great at exporting the data/ fixtures easily so switching the backend for production is very painless. All that being said, I think anyone just starting out (I sound like some super experienced veteran - I'm not) should just run on Linux because it will be the least hassle all around. Plus if it's something you're going to host, you'd be nuts to host it on Windows. On Mar 8, 4:54 pm, Matteius <matte...@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to weigh in on this discussion because I started out > developing Django apps fairly platform agnostic in college, meaning > that I worked on the apps on a variety of systems (although not too > much on macs). My big project has been Django-Classcomm (http:// > classcomm.googlecode.com/). Well so now I develop Django apps > professionally in a land of mac developers/engineers I run Windows > 7. > > I have to say I don't really run my Django apps too much on Windows > natively, but I definitely develop them natively on Windows 7 and most > of my app spaces run in the local test environment from within the > windows file system (well technically they all do!). Well so my > solution is I run Ubuntu server in Virtual Box (http:// > virtualbox.org/) and I use host only adapter to connect to my host > from Windows 7 and I use the libraries versions as spec'ed for > production deployments. My projects can live on Windows and run from > the linux server using the Virtual Box Shared Folders addition that > you get with installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions iso when you > load up Ubuntu for the first time. > > Python is generally pretty good about running this way, for some of > the java stuff sometimes I have to copy it locally to withinside the > VM for ant commands to function properly. This is the ideal solution > because you can use all your favorite tools like PyCharm to edit and > develop natively on Windows and as long as your VM is running you can > connect with GUI and cygwin to do fairly instantaneous development. > > I still occasionally think about getting my projects fully running on > the Windows side so that I can tie them to the PyCharm IDE and take > advantage of those types of development tools. However for now this > desire has always been trumped by the inconvenience of some of the > library support with the convenience of using a VM and spending most > of your time actually making traction. Maybe if I wait long enough > the IDEs will have better abilities to plugin to running services on > VMs ... That is generally how computing works, if you wait things > will get better and you can save a lot of effort. But when you are > starting or have a very specific goal, going to the effort can really > pay off. -- 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.
