| 1 | You can run Django on PyPy, and it appears to be running reasonably well. By Django version 1.0 the current issues should have been resolved. |
| 2 | For now you can get a project like Pinax from Django Hotclub up and running with a bit of extra work. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Check out PyPy |
| 5 | |
| 6 | svn co http://codespeak.net/svn/pypy/dist pypy-dist |
| 7 | |
| 8 | For Mac: |
| 9 | Install Developer Tools |
| 10 | Install MacPorts |
| 11 | Install libffi |
| 12 | |
| 13 | |
| 14 | Build pypy-c |
| 15 | |
| 16 | Magic translation command (example): |
| 17 | ./translate.py --thread --gc=hybrid targetpypystandalone --faassen --allworkingmodules --oldstyle |
| 18 | |
| 19 | |
| 20 | Check out Django |
| 21 | |
| 22 | Do a subversion checkout of django trunk. Or get version 1.0 that has the signals speedup (ticket 6814) |
| 23 | Or if ticket 6814 is not in yet, apply patch ticket 6857 (http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6857) |
| 24 | |
| 25 | |
| 26 | Python 2.4 |
| 27 | |
| 28 | Django only requires Python 2.3. But, be aware that many popular django applications depend on Python 2.5 runtime lib. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * elementtree (from xml.etree import cElementTree as ElementTree) |
| 31 | python-openid |
| 32 | yadis |
| 33 | gdata |
| 34 | |
| 35 | * hashlib |
| 36 | python-openid |
| 37 | gravatar |
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| 39 | |