Re: Macs are great for Django development!

[John DeRosa]

On Apr 20, 2012, at 8:39 AM, creecode wrote:

> Hello Houman,
> 
> On Friday, April 20, 2012 5:58:34 AM UTC-7, Houmie wrote:
>  
> As I am not familiar with Mac, is it true that a let say a Mac Mini is 
> powerful enough to run Python, Eclipse/PyDev and Django like its done 
> in Ubuntu without any problem?
> 
> Macs are great for Django development!  You may have to do a bit more work to 
> get some libraries installed as sometimes they aren't specifically tuned for 
> Macs.  Any modern Mac should be just fine for development.  Heck even ancient 
> Macs (PPC based) can be used albeit slower and somewhat harder to configure, 
> not the OS but again some of the libraries you might install.

+1. Our dev environment is all MacBook Pro laptops. The oldest one is a 
2010-vintage machine. They're a great dev environment.

John

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Re: Macs are great for Django development!

[creecode]

Hello Houman,

On Friday, April 20, 2012 5:58:34 AM UTC-7, Houmie wrote:
 

> As I am not familiar with Mac, is it true that a let say a Mac Mini is 
> powerful enough to run Python, Eclipse/PyDev and Django like its done 
> in Ubuntu without any problem?


Macs are great for Django development!  You may have to do a bit more work 
to get some libraries installed as sometimes they aren't specifically tuned 
for Macs.  Any modern Mac should be just fine for development.  Heck even 
ancient Macs (PPC based) can be used albeit slower and somewhat harder to 
configure, not the OS but again some of the libraries you might install.

I have a website  in 
development and the servers are Mac based.  The webserver is a recently 
purchased low-end Mac Mini .  Its 
stack includes djagno, nginx, gunicorn, psycopg2, etc.  The database server 
is an ancient Power Mac G4 (Mirrored Drive 
Doors), 
Dual 1GHz.  It's running Postgres.  The webserver was formerly a Power Mac 
G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors) , Dual 1.25GHz 
which finally gave up the ghost after almost 10 years of faithful service [ 
sniff :-( ].

The system has thus far not been optimized but it runs adequately fast at 
this stage of my development process.  Feel free to look around or even 
enter in some nutrition facts labels! :-)

Toodle-looo...
creecode

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