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Ticket #5777 (closed: fixed)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 9 months ago

development installation instructions should say to use symbolic link

Reported by: Simo Salminen <ssalmine@gmail.com> Assigned to: nobody
Milestone: Component: Documentation
Version: SVN Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Ready for checkin
Has patch: 1 Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 Patch needs improvement: 0

Description

The installation instructions have following:

Copy the file django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py to somewhere on your system path, such as /usr/local/bin (Unix) or C:\Python24\Scripts (Windows).

I think one should create symbolic link instead. Otherwise the file is not updated when doing svn update.

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5777.diff (1.3 kB) - added by arien <regexbot@gmail.com> on 11/08/07 15:51:33.

Change History

10/18/07 15:23:01 changed by SmileyChris

  • needs_better_patch changed.
  • stage changed from Unreviewed to Accepted.
  • needs_tests changed.
  • needs_docs changed.

Care to write a patch? You'd probably need to reword it so it's clear that the symbolic link option is for Unix only.

11/08/07 15:51:33 changed by arien <regexbot@gmail.com>

  • attachment 5777.diff added.

11/08/07 15:53:51 changed by arien <regexbot@gmail.com>

  • has_patch set to 1.

Dunno if this is really worth it for a 5-line script that's unlikely to ever change, but here you go.

11/08/07 15:57:20 changed by SmileyChris

  • stage changed from Accepted to Ready for checkin.

Thanks arien. You're right that this is reasonably negligible. I'll promote to checkin and a committer can make the call and wontfix it if they like.

11/29/07 10:57:21 changed by mtredinnick

  • status changed from new to closed.
  • resolution set to fixed.

(In [6737]) Fixed #5777 -- Recommend using a symbolic link on Linux, OSX, etc for django-admin.py so that subversion updates keep it up to date. Patch from arien.

Add/Change #5777 (development installation instructions should say to use symbolic link)




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