On 04/13/2012 08:30 AM, Daniel Sokolowski wrote: > People won’t always read all the docs – it’s a fact – so sooner or later > some other new comer will experience this issue complain, gave up and > worse even blog his/hers negative experience. We do want the newbie > experience to be as painless as possible which means popularity and > growth of the framework - and ultimately continuation of our paying jobs. > > This thread was started by a newbie to the framework, putting aside the > confrontational tone it stated some valid concerns from a beginners > perspective – a very important perspective. > > I’ve been using django for a long time and had no idea about this > ‘distutils’ caveat; I do not understand or know how django installs > setup process works but am up for some kind of a warning/error directly > to the console.
Thanks Daniel. I'm experimenting right now with a patch to setup.py that would print a loud warning to console if it detects an existing django/ directory in the target site-packages. Carl
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