On 4/10/07, brian mckinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Jay, this worked perfectly. > > Can anyone shed some light on the purpose of the easy-install.pth > file? Is this just adding django to the system path?
Very briefly: There is a large movement in the Python community to move towards .egg distribution. For many things, it's great, but the general consensus was that for Django, it was causing more trouble than it's worth. The way that .egg files work is by getting listed in the easy-install.pth file. That file will include all the .egg files on your system, as a way to let the Python interpreter know about them. For 0.96, eggs are no longer being used, and the more "traditional" method of installing the directory into site-packages is being used. This is actually going to be a problem for anyone that had installed 0.95 as an egg, and then upgraded to 0.96 (not just on OS X). If you don't know about eggs, then it's a confusing problem. Jay P. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
