Re: Thinking of making the switch from PHP to Django/Python

On Nov 8, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Quenten Griffith wrote:

>
> All,
>
> I have developed a 1.0 version of a recipe management tool. I wrote
> it in PHP using the symfony framework. For the 2.0 version I want to
> switch to python. The reason for the 1.0 version was I wanted to use
> it to learn PHP. Now I really want to learn Python/Django. The
> question I have though, is once an application is built, how hard is
> it for a normal end-user to install a Django web application? From
> what I have seen thus far on django sites, you have to install the
> extra python lib's yourself, and edit a bunch of config files to make
> most applications work. This may be to much for your normal end user
> who would download my software to use. Has anyone made an "all in
> one" installer for their application that contains all the libs one
> would need or would that involve packaging python with your
> application too?

You can package the whole thing, Python interpreter and all libraries
included, with http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zc.buildout.

Here's a great tutorial http://jacobian.org/writing/django-apps-with-buildout/
, specific to Django, even!

S

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