On 17/10/2013 16:26, Tim Chase wrote:
How do folks prefer to layout their Django projects when using
virtualenv?  Do you do either of the following, or something else?

Method 1: (project & apps at same level)

~/tmp$ virtualenv my_proj
~/tmp$ cd my_proj
~/tmp/my_proj$ . bin/activate
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj$ pip install django # ...
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj$ django-admin.py startproject my_project
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj$ django-admin.py startapp my_app1
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj$ # run/test from virtenv root

Method 2: (apps within project)

~/tmp$ virtualenv my_proj
~/tmp$ cd my_proj
~/tmp/my_proj$ . bin/activate
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj$ pip install django # ...
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj$ django-admin.py startproject my_project
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj$ cd my_project
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj/my_project$ ./manage.py startapp my_app1
(my_proj)~/tmp/my_proj/my_project$ # run/test from proj root

Do you have to jockey the $PYTHONPATH to find apps in either case?
If so, how do you make this portable/versioned (modify the
virtualenv scripts and add them to $VCS? have a custom script and put
that in $VCS?)

Which bits do you include/exclude when using version-control?

Do you keep your requirements.txt for pip at the top level virtualenv
directory, or inside the project folder (or elsewhere)?

I've seen a couple blog-posts that advocate "use virtualenv" but most
seem to elide the best-practice details.

Any tips appreciated.

-tkc

I'd keep the virtualenv directory and the project directory completely separate.

Keep the requirements.txt file in the top level of your Django project and use that if you ever need to regenerate your virtualenv directory structure. Essentially the virtualenv environment should be completely disposable since you can regenerate it automatically in the future if required. You certainly shouldn't be committing it a version control system. That seems rather messy to me.

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