Changeset 4479

Timestamp:

02/10/07 02:55:18 (2 years ago)

Author:

mtredinnick

Message:

Fixed #3147 -- documented how to use .pth files for easy switching between
different versions of the code. Thanks to Waylan Limberg for the patch.

Files:

• django/trunk/AUTHORS (modified) (1 diff)
• django/trunk/docs/contributing.txt (modified) (2 diffs)

django/trunk/AUTHORS

@@ -115 +115 @@
-    Christopher Lenz <http://www.cmlenz.net/>
-    lerouxb@gmail.com
+    Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
-    limodou
-    mattmcc

django/trunk/docs/contributing.txt

@@ -485 +485 @@
-change the symlink to point to the old code.
-
+A third option is to use a `path file`_ (``<something>.pth``) which should
+work on all systems (including MS Windows, which doesn't have symlinks
+available). First, make sure there are no files, directories or symlinks named
+``django`` in your ``site-packages`` directory. Then create a text file named
+``django.pth`` and save it to your ``site-packages`` directory. That file
+should contain a path to your copy of Django on a single line and optional
+comments. Here is an example that points to multiple branches. Just uncomment
+the line for the branch you want to use ('Trunk' in this example) and make
+sure all other lines are commented::
+
+    # Trunk is a svn checkout of:
+    #   http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/
+    #
+    /path/to/trunk
+    
+    # <branch> is a svn checkout of:
+    #   http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/<branch>/
+    #
+    #/path/to/<branch>
+    
+    # On windows a path may look like this:
+    # C:/path/to/<branch>
+
-If you're using Django 0.95 or earlier and installed it using
-``python setup.py install``, you'll have a directory called something like
@@ -491 +514 @@
-file. Then copy the branch's version of the ``django`` directory into
-``site-packages``.
+
+.. _path file: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-site.html
-
-Official releases