Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-24 Thread graeme
On Oct 24, 3:42 pm, Tom Evans wrote: > I have a number of non-web django processes, so I'm not against that > in general. However, installing a full LAMP/WAMP stack, django and all You do not necessarilly need a full lamp stack. Use Cherrpy (or similar) and SQLite for example. I can think of pl

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-24 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/24/2011 03:42 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Alex Mandel > wrote: >> Also the best part of this design is that you can turn it into a web app >> at any time by simply opening a port on a machine to allow others to >> connect. >> > > Is that supposed to be a plus? S

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: > Also the best part of this design is that you can turn it into a web app > at any time by simply opening a port on a machine to allow others to > connect. > Is that supposed to be a plus? Sounds like a nightmare. The smart way to do this is t

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-23 Thread Chandrakant Kumar
On 10/23/2011 07:02 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: On 10/21/2011 07:35 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 00:02 +0200, Ivo Brodien wrote: I think with django this is an easy tast. This might loos like a typical Excel/VBA and maybe Word thing, but I don’t want to use non open source sof

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-22 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/21/2011 07:35 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 00:02 +0200, Ivo Brodien wrote: >> I think with django this is an easy tast. >> >> This might loos like a typical Excel/VBA and maybe Word thing, but I >> don’t want to use non open source software for this and since I like >

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-22 Thread Chandrakant Kumar
On 10/22/2011 08:05 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 00:02 +0200, Ivo Brodien wrote: I think with django this is an easy tast. This might loos like a typical Excel/VBA and maybe Word thing, but I don’t want to use non open source software for this and since I like Django and t

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 00:02 +0200, Ivo Brodien wrote: > I think with django this is an easy tast. > > This might loos like a typical Excel/VBA and maybe Word thing, but I > don’t want to use non open source software for this and since I like > Django and there it might be the feature of a online

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-21 Thread Fernando Rocha
What I did: - Directory with: Project and Django. - Python 2.7 download link. - bootstrap.py with manage.py commandas This way I didn't need to 'build a executable', which I tried, but failed. The trick was the bootstrap.py file with mange.py commands, like: import manage manage.execute_manager(m

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-21 Thread Kurtis
It would be cool to have some sort of an automatic deployment thing where it includes a Custom Firefox, Django (w/ runserver) and an sqlite database all wrapped up into a single executable package. Especially if you could do cross-platform builds so that it automatically creates Windows, OSX, and L

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-21 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/21/2011 03:02 PM, Ivo Brodien wrote: > Hi, > >> Could you tell us more about the utility you want to create? It sounds like >> Django might not be the appropriate tool in this case. > > well it is quite simple. > > The user will have to provide some metadata for every week of the year. T

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-21 Thread Ivo Brodien
Hi, > Could you tell us more about the utility you want to create? It sounds like > Django might not be the appropriate tool in this case. well it is quite simple. The user will have to provide some metadata for every week of the year. This then gets printed to a monthly view with the 4 weeks

Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

2011-10-21 Thread Brett Epps
Hi, Could you tell us more about the utility you want to create? It sounds like Django might not be the appropriate tool in this case. Brett From: Ivo Brodien mailto:i...@brodien.de>> Reply-To: mailto:django-users@googlegroups.com>> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:46:49 +0200 To: Django users mailt