Re: Using an application more than once in a project

On 08-Jul-06, at 12:10 AM, Ahmad Alhashemi wrote: > Besides, symlinking is an OS feature, not a feature of Django. I do > all > my development on Windows, so I can't use it. there is a utility for that -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://avsap.org.in --~--~-~--~--

Re: Using an application more than once in a project

Ahmad Alhashemi wrote: > Besides, symlinking is an OS feature, not a feature of Django. I do all > my development on Windows, so I can't use it. You can do the same on Windows (if you use NTFS). Get junction from Sysinternals: http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Junction.html Use it like so:

Re: Using an application more than once in a project

Ahmad, You don't even need a symlink to achieve this. If you expect to reuse this app in multiple Django projects, just make sure it is in your Python path and you can simply add it to your projects' settings.INSTALLED_APP list. This is exactly like using the Django admin app in multiple projec

Re: Using an application more than once in a project

Julio is right that you can use the same app in multiple Django projects from the same common path. The key point here is that each Django project runs in a separate Python runtime environment. This is what makes this possible. If you really meant using two instances of an app in the _same_ Djang

Re: Using an application more than once in a project

Thank you for the tip, Julio. It is sure going to be useful practically. But it doesn't feel right. The fact that you trick django into thinking that there are multiple physical copies of the same application just to use it more than once in one website. Besides, symlinking is an OS feature, not

Re: Using an application more than once in a project

Sure. All Django/Python cares about is where the folder (module) is. Here's what I do sometimes: Create an app on my /home/ dir and symlink it inside the projects. So I am just re-using the same codebase on different projects, and getting the benefit of its changes/upgrades/development. On 7

Using an application more than once in a project

Hi, Is it possible to use the same application more than once in the same project? For example, if I download a ready made weblog application, can I use it in one place as a general purpose weblog and in another place as a seperate development weblog? TIA. --Ahmad --~--~-~--~~---