Documentation says about "symlinking"

[anonymous]

In the beginning ​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/django_admin/
says about manage.py

Consider symlinking to it from some place on your path, such as /usr/local/bin.

But there is NO "symlinking" in Windows.

[anonymous]

Do you mean django-admin.py? You can follow the comment by Valter on the install documentation at: ​http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/#c578

One trick to make life easier on Windows:

- append ".py" to PATHEXT (Settings - Control Panel - System - Advanced - Environment...) 
- append C:\Program Files\Python\Scripts to PATH

This way you can run django-admin.py by just typing "django-admin".

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Milestone Version 1.0 deleted

[Simon G. <dev@…>]

Minor patch to make this a bit less platform dependant.

Index: docs/django-admin.txt
===================================================================
--- docs/django-admin.txt       (revision 4347)
+++ docs/django-admin.txt       (working copy)
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 The ``django-admin.py`` script should be on your system path if you installed
 Django via its ``setup.py`` utility. If it's not on your path, you can find it in
 ``site-packages/django/bin`` within your Python installation. Consider
-symlinking to it from some place on your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``.
+symlinking or copying it into your path, such as ``/usr/local/bin``.
 
 Generally, when working on a single Django project, it's easier to use
 ``manage.py``. Use ``django-admin.py`` with ``DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE``, or the

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

(In [4481]) Fixed #3159 -- documented how to work around a lack of symlinking functionality
on Windows (with respect to django-admin.py).