what's the best way to setup django and svn?

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right now i have:

~/webapps/django
~/webapps/django_static
~/webapps/django_admin

right now my working copies look like:

~/working/myreponame/trunk ~/working/myreponame/tags ~/working/myreponame/branches

i would like to have a production environment and a development environment where:

www.mywebsite.com => production (symlink to ~/working/myreponame/tags/current) beta.mywebsite.com => dev (symlink to ~/working/myreponame/trunk)

what is the best way to set this up?

i've tried creating a symlink for ~/webapps/django/myproject to point to trunk, but then i had problems doing python2.7 manage.py syncdb; it would say things like ImportError: No module named django.core.management

any advice would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Accepted Answer

There's no reason that your symlink approach shouldn't work.

Regarding the ImportError message, you need to either:

Ensure that your working directory is ~/webapps/django/myproject (the symlink) and not ~/working/myreponame/trunk (the source). We have some Python magic that automatically puts your ~/webapps/django/lib/python2.7 directory on your sys.path if the working directory is at or below ~/webapps/django, so Python will be able to locate your Django libraries. Or...
Explicitly set your PYTHONPATH environment variable if you're running the commands from your trunk directory.

An example of the latter:

export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/webapps/django/lib/python2.7
cd ~/working/myreponame/trunk
python2.7 manage.py syncdb

If you see more ImportError messages regarding other Python modules, then make sure that those modules' parent directories are on your PYTHONPATH also.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

0	Are you using Virtual Environments at all? If not, that might be something for you to look into. I use it with GIT, but not quite the same way you are asking. permanent link answered 16 Apr '11, 12:30 bmeyer71 ♦♦ 1.5k●3●6●13 accept rate: 33%

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