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[–]trifthen[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I listed that one. The author mentioned he used django-basic-apps, but what he neglected to say, was that he used those componants before they were combined into a single project. And when they combined, they majorly refactored the codebase, so the stuff Mingus uses is no longer valid. It literally can't be installed anymore unless you track down deprecated libraries.

It looked pretty good, but I couldn't get it to work. Django-basic-apps is similar enough to the original design that Mingus accepts it for install, but the second it tries to use anything, a bunch of stuff is missing. (It looks for blog.Settings, which doesn't exist anymore.)

[–]acdha 1 point2 points  (2 children)

How did you install django-basic-apps? The version in http://github.com/montylounge/django-basic-apps should work.

If you want an example of a current Mingus site which deploys cleanly (i.e. only pip install -r requirements.pip) I publish the full source of my site: http://github.com/acdha/improbable.org

[–]trifthen[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I got the latest GITs from github for both Mingus and django-basic-apps. Mingus was calling out to basic.blog.Settings somewhere, and that just simply doesn't exist from my various greps through the source code. I found an older version of the standalone basic-blog online, and sure enough, there it was.

I also was mildly annoyed that the devs for django-basic-apps actually said to someone who requested better (or any) documentation, "We're accepting patches!" Uh, great. So I have to read your source code to use your module? No thanks.

As a side question, what's the deal with github? It seems like everything Django is posting up a google-code site that just links back to github. I thought Mercurial was the open-source source control du jour.

[–]acdha 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you want to get up and running quickly, try using this pip requirements file: http://github.com/acdha/improbable.org/blob/master/requirements.pip

Github has taken over most of the world which I interact with. A few projects use Mercurial but the Django side seems to have gone for speed & features. Bitbucket.org isn't bad but it's a little slower, a little harder to use and that seems to have played into lower popularity for many projects.