#21311: Issues using mySQL on OS X in the tutorial
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Reporter: helge@… | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Documentation | Version: 1.4
Severity: Normal | Keywords: UNIX Env Vars & mySQL
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Hi there!
At first a big thank you for the great tutorial. I started a point zero
and now I got some nice app working (only in local lightweight webserver
deployment). When I started the tutorial I wanted to use it with mySQL
which was already installed on my machine. But for some reason it did not
work (i keep trying to fix this issue but still have no clue until now).
I have extensively documented my experience with the tutorial (as newbie
to both, python & django) here:
http://www.thetawelle.de/?p=3047
One part which always really gets into the way of making things work
smoothly is that the importance of UNIX environment vars is completely
left in the dark. That is not any different on this tutorial. I have no
clue which env vars do exist, get used, and how they influence the whole
django/python cosmos.
e.g. what exactly is the "pythonpath"? I mean I know the search paths
which I handle in my bash_profile. It would be so much easier to
understand whats going on, if you could give a little clue about the task
of env vars here. I also think that these env vars are a thing that is not
very well understood by most people.
I mean I am coming from Xcode and Objective-C where I do not have to do a
lot of stuff on the shell. But for python and django the shell is the
natual environment where it lives. A short quickstart on the most
important things of the env vars would be a huge improvment on the
tutorial.
Another helpful improvement would be to explain upfront, what these
installers (like pip) are actually doing. I do not want to know every
single step, but it would be so helpful to know if they are special
binaries, if they are scripts, if in which language, and what kind of
operations they will carry out for me. If I call this stuff via "sudo" I
basically should know about this. I just trusted the installer this time,
but I should have been more careful I think.
Best & thanks already for the nice tutorial,
Helge
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