Thanks for the reply Karen. I think I'll upgrade to an SVN checkout of Django, as you advised.
Thanks a lot for your advice. :-) On Jul 13, 9:54 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 12:40 AM, tampler_knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you so much for the reply, Karen. Greatly appreciated. > > > I am using Django-0.96.2 which is installed in the C drive of my > > machine (running Windows XP SP2). > > > As advised in the documentation, I tried to use 'setup.py install' but > > I get the following error: > > > C:\Django-0.96.2>setup.py install > > running install > > running build > > running build_py > > error: package directory '\django' does not exist > > > Can you please advise me how I can get rid of this error. > > Honestly I'd recommend upgrading to an SVN checkout of django. That error, > along with other Windows-specific problems with setup.py have been fixed in > the current code. Plus you get over a years worth of bug fixes and > significant improvements (unicode, autoescape, queryset improvements). > Unless you have pre-existing code that you don't want to adjust for > backwards-incompatible changes since 0.96, I see no reason to stick with an > 0.96.x release. > > If you really need to use an 0.96 release, pull just the current setup.py > from SVN. You can download it from > here:http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/setup.py(there are > download links at the bottom of the page) and use it instead of the one that > comes with 0.96. > > Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---