I intend to post some more information about Djangocon to the list in the future. Until I get to that, there is one topic that I wanted to start discussing and get some input.
At Djangocon, there were plenty of folks that had good things to say about Satchmo but the overwhelming feedback (I know this isn't new either) is that the installation process was too daunting. After looking at how Pinax does things and learning more about PIP and virtualenv, I decided to hack something together to see what we could do. I've created a Satchmo bootstrapping script called getsatchmo.py. It is meant to take a bare bones Python + pip install and give you a functioning Satchmo store in 1 command - can't get any easier than that ;) After hacking away on the plane ride home and some further work today, I've got something that is a good start. I would like some feedback from this group on how it performs in your situations. To test this out - - Download the script from here - http://bitbucket.org/chris1610/satchmo/raw/cb9014f34353/scripts/getsatchmo.py - Place in a suitable subdirectory - sudo python getsatchmo.py BOOM. Everything should get downloaded and placed and you should be able to run the satchmo demo store. You will need to have Python and PIP ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip ) installed and working. I also recommend that you install PIL using your distributions binaries. PIL seems finicky if you try to compile yourself. If you already have Satchmo running, then I'd recommend using a virtualenv to isolate things for testing. Anyway, I hope people will take a couple of minutes and play with this to see if it makes that initial install easier. Once I get some feedback, I'll incorporate into the official docs. Thanks, Chris --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
