Re: 2 projects, 2 apps, bad templates ...

> > Use virtualenvs. That's basic for any serious python development
> > you'll want to do.
>
> Totally agree. Setting up virtualenv's are our long term goal.

really, it should be your SHORT term goal.

As for your problem, you can't expect to install FOOAPP in two
different directories on the same environment (system global, in this
case) and expect that to work OK.

You're supposed to install that just once, and USE it from different
projects, if that's what you want to do. Also, if you're installing in
the global system python installation, you should not put them under
any single project's directory, but rather somewhere outside them,
because otherwise you'll end up with modules that can be reached from
two different paths (FOOAPP and ProjectA.FOOAPP) and that's bad.

Doing that will probably end you up with the templates problem in BOTH
projects, but at least you'll have consistent behaviour.

Now for the templates. If you're making a reusable app and providing
templates with it, you should do your best to make the templates
reusable as well. The standard procedure is to have them under an
<appname> directory like this:

AppDir/templates/appname/TemplateFiles.html

so the idea is that if you need special modifications for a project,
you can put your special templates in your project's
templates/appname/ directory, and the template loader will find your
local templates before it falls back to the app's directory.

I hope that's clear enough.

Also, make sure your app has a MANIFEST for setup.py to be able to
install non-python files (e.g.: your templates) when you install it
without the -e option. Look at the distutils docs for more details

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