On 10/17/06, sbain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The developer version of Django is made available only via Subversion, > so the requirement for internet access at install is hardly a > disadvantage. Django is, after all, a web framework!
It is, but the setuptools requirement of an active internet connection makes it *extremely* difficult to use setuptools for things like automated installs on multiple machines -- it's not uncommon for servers to be installed, or mostly installed, while totally offline or when connected only to a private backplane. With setuptools that just wasn't possible. > With setuptools, this command copies nothing to site-packages except a > setuptools-based link to the Django checkout, and Django is easily kept > up to date with svn up. SInce Windows has no built-in linking, this > setuptools-based linking is quite useful, and especially for newbies! It's a tradeoff, though, because setuptools seems to be extremely brittle -- even minor changes in the easy_install/setuptools chain can apparently break the entire system, and that's much, much worse. In the long run, I think this change is for the best; issues with easy upgrades of SVN checkouts can be worked around, but not being installable on disconnected machines, or not being installable at all for a while whenever the easy_install stuff changes upstream, are much more severe and much harder to work around. -- "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
