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
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