Re: Streamlining DJango Deployment — Novel idea from the world of CMSs

We talked a little on IRC, but just thought i'd reiterate my thoughts.

This should not be in core, and I don't believe it ever has a chance of being in core.

That being said, I think that an external "installer" app like this wouldn't be the worst thing in the world, and could help to make an out out of the box Django Project (not django itself) an easier thing to distribute.

I think if you go forward with this you'll best serve yourself, and the community by not making it django specific, but instead make an easy way to create a self contained installer/runtime container for wsgi based projects and then someone who creates a project in Django (like say a wordpress like site, or a forum like site), and wants to prepackage it for the masses can then use your project to create an easy installer/deployment container to get started with the project.

On Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Alec Taylor wrote:

Good morning,

I have just recently starting migrating over from WordPress and Drupal to the world of DJango.

First of all, let me say that yes, I am aware that DJango is not a CMS!!!

Now, onto my suggestions on how to streamline DJango deployment.
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= What's wrong with the current method? =

• Doesn't cater to people who don't know Python
• Requires the installer to be a developer (pretty much)
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I'm building a social-network catering to student-groups, users-groups and game-clans. I will be releasing this under (probably) the New BSD license. Because I want as many people as possible to be able to use this project, I want to make it very easy for non-developers to setup this social-network on there servers.
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= What are you suggesting? =

A four-step install process.
• Install pre-packaged Python+DJango-script package
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What are your thoughts on the DJango deployment redesign?

Would anyone be interested in getting involved (making this happen!)?

Best regards,

Alec Taylor

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