I created a binary installer for pinax for OS X platform.
http://www.ptone.com/misc/pinax.dmg
This allows one to download and test drive pinax without having
developer tools installed, and includes compiled and bundled version
of PIL.
It also has a simple GUI to pick a project type, and has preconfigured
(just syncdb) projects for each current project type.
I think there could be a couple audiences for this.
People already familiar with Django, but not virtualenv workflow
People who haven't successfully installed PIL into their global
site packages
People who want to check out Pinax, but don't want to clone and
syncdb each project type
People who are interested in Pinax as a platform, but aren't
particularly technical.
I know there are some pros/cons of this last group - Pinax is not a
point and click piece of software and it wouldn't be helpful to have
completely unprepared people trying to use pinax and ask questions,
but I do maintain that its good for the community if people are
intrigued enough by pinax that they hire quality devs to customize
pinax, hopefully who contribute back to pinax in some way in the
process.
There were some oddball things I found in doing this.
One is that standard OS X without devtools is missing:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/
distutils/__init__.py
Which throws off the distutils import of virtualenv - so I install
that.
Second is that if I strip .pyc files out of the env (saving 20mb
installed, ~4mb from the installer download) the virtualenv is broken
- I didn't dig too hard, perhaps something with the virtualenv
customizations site.py file?
Anyway - interested in what you all think.
-Preston
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