-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Russ,
On 10/12/2011 05:14 AM, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > My only feedback on the patch is a point of clarification in the > tutorial. Rather than creating a mysite directory with a mysite > project directory in it, and then having to refer to the "inner/outer > directory" or "the directory with manage.py in it", it strikes me that > it might be cleaner to name the outer directory something generic > (like "django_tutorial"). This reinforces that the outer directory > name doesn't matter, and that startproject is only creating the inner > directory. So the repeated directory name does make the tutorial wording slightly clumsy (though I don't think it's much of a problem otherwise). The issue is that startproject _does_ in fact create both the outer and inner directory; and I think it must do so, else its creating a manage.py in the current directory, and we have to explicitly tell people "first create an empty directory, then run startproject inside of it" - I don't think that's a good plan. I toyed with ideas like allowing startproject to take two arguments instead of one, or allowing its argument to be an invalid Python module name, using that for the outer directory, and then doing an automatic slugify-like conversion to a valid Python module name for the inner directory. In the end I decided it was simplest to just live with the repeated directory name. I suppose the one other thing we could do is explicitly have the user rename the outer directory in the tutorial? This doesn't really seem worth it, though... Carl -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6VlOAACgkQ8W4rlRKtE2fWywCfZ/Lzj2F4AGUn6l4xo4rB1YTg bkgAniAMyoP/S1zUUILEUKBeyVGgyhaZ =m891 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
