Re: Django as a Standalone Desktop Application

It would be cool to have some sort of an automatic deployment thing
where it includes a Custom Firefox, Django (w/ runserver) and an
sqlite database all wrapped up into a single executable package.
Especially if you could do cross-platform builds so that it
automatically creates Windows, OSX, and Linux packages.

On Oct 21, 6:05 pm, Alex Mandel <tech_...@wildintellect.com> wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 03:02 PM, Ivo Brodien wrote:
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> >> Could you tell us more about the utility you want to create?  It sounds like Django might not be the appropriate tool in this case.
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> > well it is quite simple.
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> > The user will have to provide some metadata for every week of the year. This then gets printed to a monthly view with the 4 weeks of the month +/- a few days of that month
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> > A downloadable PDF file will be created which then has to be filled out with more data. This "more data might be entered via the online interface one day, but that is not sure at all.
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> > I think with django this is an easy tast.
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> > This might loos like a typical Excel/VBA and maybe Word thing, but I don t want to use non open source software for this and since I like Django and there it might be the feature of a online input of the data I want to go with Django.
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> > What would you recommend?
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> I've actually thought about this concept for a while too, very similar
> use cases of DB data entry front ends to SQLite. If you use sqlite, you
> might be able to build something with py2exe/nsis that uses the built in
> runserver of django and launches a browser to the local url for entering
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> Thanks,
> Alex

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