DjangoBot: #pinax

Hi, I'm trying to understand django-staticfiles, but the difference between STATIC_ROOT and MEDIA_ROOT isn't clear to me

do you have ideas?

Hi, I'm having this problem with pinax-boot.py, running python2.6 on CentOS 5.x: http://paste.ofcode.org/34SH5WbDMCGaNtQkDHhjYdt

anyone seen that before, known fix?

which version of Pinax?

trunk

actually i see the problem

are you sure you are running 2.6?

brosner: Yep!

i only see that exception on Python 2.4

Python2.4 was/is being installed in pinax-env/python

Hm...hold on, my distutils magic may not be as strong as it is supposed to be. :(

we do support 2.4 so this is a valid bug

interesting, if distribute is already installed on the machine, and pip, does it try to build it again?

build what again?

distribute and setuptools. http://paste.ofcode.org/EzBsLEg7L2ZMazNXCP9KAb

i don't know anything about distribute

all i do know is that the command you are issuing is installing setuptools in the virtual environment it is creating.

cool, thanks for your help. I'll try to figure out what is going on.

might try passing --distribute to pinax-boot.py?

OK, Will do.

Pinax doesn't officially support it. that is just what virtualenv does.

brosner: that allowed everything to be installed but couldn't locate a version file for the release...since it is not a tarball

you still need to pass --development

i did fix the 2.4 bug btw http://github.com/pinax/pinax/commit/7c3f7b9eee...

awesome, you guys are fast!

we "support" 2.4, but right now that really means we wait until someone complains then we fix it ;-)

so honestly 2.5 is best since that is tested the most.

2.5+

Python 2.4 is way old, so I did all sorts of hacks to get python2.6 working on CentOS, it's been a wild journey. :)

yeah :-(

does even the latest CentOS come with anything greater than 2.4?

Nope, that is what yum requires. I tried to upgrade but yum completely broke.

ahh

Luckily a quick distutils.cfg with ~lib and ~bin mkaes it work.

getting following Error loading psycopg2 module: No module named psycopg2

can someone explain how to install psycopg2 with pinax

using 0.7.1

Hi

can i use mongodb / couchdb with my pinax application ?

well, Pinax doesn't do anything to help you but it doesn't stop you either

are there any techniques to be followed if my db, schema alters ?

phoenix24: nothing unique to Pinax

what are techniques in general for django application ?

phoenix24: there are migration tools like South or (my own preference) just writing custom SQL

phoenix24: I got disconnected so I am not sure how much I missed about the converstaion; just wanted to say that there is pymongo, the python driver for mongodb, then there is http://bitbucket.org/namlook/mongokit/wiki/Home

if you want to use MongoDB with Django/Pinax there is also http://github.com/peterbe/django-mongokit which builds atop mongokit

sunoano, thanks a lot; i'll definitely have a look at the booth.

sure, no problem

I am too pretty interested in using mongodb as the data tier below Django/Pinax so ...

truth is, one might probably use both types of databases for a while; RDBMS for transactional stuff and NoSQL for the rest

because of the CAP theorem NoSQL databases are no good fit if you need to, for example, do billing and such things; for this kind of stuff you want ACID behavior of the data tier ...

do, the memcache pyhton bindings come bundles as the pinax virtualenv ?

okay, does anyone here use johnny cache?

pinax is focused on creating social networking sites, or i get it wrong?

Evet: http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/python.html...

thanks sunoano

no problem, you are welcome