On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 2:35 PM, cbolson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Lucas, I was thinking along the same lines - mooshells on php would be > great! > When, earlier in this thread it was suggested by Fabio that I "give > patches and contribute with some code" I foolishly expected that it > would be in php and that it would be "easy". I must say that I was > dissapointed by what I found :( - not by the product but by the fact > that I had absolutely no idea as to what to do with what I had > downloaded. > > Being in python/Django counts me out as far as being able to help in > any way with the code. > I would be interesed in learning Python but Django is beyond me and > the web is certainly not very helpful. > I have taken a good look at it (Django) and I must admit to not really > understanding what it is all about - it seems to require some sort of > server installation and, unless one has their own server or has > adminstrator rights to the server I can't see how this can be done. > If I where to develop anything like this I would want to be able to do > it online. Creating something locally on my machine is of absolutley > no use/interest to me. > > Mooshell is a great product, but I can't see any reason why it > couldn't equally be developed with php, I am sure that that would open > it up to more developers.
Django is one of the best documented pieces of software out there. Kindly see http://djangoproject.com/documentation/ You do not need a server or anything to run django. In fact, its easier than php to get started with django. I don't know from where you got your info, but it must've been really misleading. Piotr has already documented how to get started with mooshell. Once you have downloaded all the deps (of which there are only very few), you can simply do: python ./manage.py runserver ... and browse to localhost:8000 in your favorite browser. As for hosting, there are a number of hosting options. My favorite is to run django in a VPS with nginx+fastcgi and postgresql. As far as PHP is concerned ... lets not even go there ... Regards Rajeev J Sebastian
