22.8.2012 14:56, Tom Evans kirjoitti:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Vibhu Rishi <vibhu.ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
If you are new to Django and are just getting around to learn it, I
recommend using BitNami Django stack for windows.
http://bitnami.org/stack/djangostack
So far, it has been the easiest to install on the windows machine.
Vibhu
I know a lot of people really like these bundled stacks, but there are
a few downsides to consider:
1) You get what the packagers have packaged. If that is not precisely
what you want, tough.
2) You gain no knowledge about how your stack is put together. If you
don't understand your stack, developing solutions using it becomes
trickier.
3) Django is not a language; its a python library. It's highly likely
you will also use other python libraries as part of your solution, so
working out how to deal with installing, upgrading and maintaining
python libraries is a useful skill. By just installing a stack, you
miss out on learning useful skills.
I don't want to put people off though; I'm sure the people at bitnami
have put together a good stack.
Cheers
Tom
I also agree that using any stack is simple way to get prepackaged
"something" up and running.
But as Tom pointed out Django is just a python library. It's rather
evitable to start need other libraries as well. Or if you happen to have
some nice database backend like I do have Oracle and I use GeoDjango
spatial parts that do require quite a bunch of external stuff to be
installed. Never tried on bitnami stack but in general those will get
tricky there.
I use windows environment for everyday development - as does about 20 my
colleagues as well. I wrote small blog entry in April how I setup my
environment. That includes python, virtualenv and TCC/LE that brings
nice enhancement over standard CMD to make everything feel more
"unix-like" environment without needs to do any virtual machine or dual
boot tricks. But it's not hard to install everything it just requires
some work. And after you get virtualenvs up and running setting up all
kind of stuff is just a breeze.
http://djangonautlostinspace.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/django-and-windows/
I also know that there exists virtualenv-wrapper scripts for windows
cmd/powershell but never got them working in my environment and I've
been too lazy to try to fix them for my envs.
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