= Orip & Gooli's notes =

== Installing ==

(http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/)

Can easy_install straight from svn!
{{{
easy_install http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk/
}}}
''Sweet! ''
(It works nicely, except when it breaks with setuptools complaining about "!NameError: log" or something. Duh.)

== Multiple versions ==

Some of us had previous installations in the standard location, site-packages/, and wanted to not touch them.
Can install (typically, check out latest from SVN) to a home directory (or C:\Temp, ugh!), and then symlink it in site-packages/, or hack PYTHON_PATH before invoking the "non-standard" installations.
(Examples?)

== The official tutorial ==

 * "Applications": WTF? No explanation what they're for.

But see more [wiki:CurrentTutorialIdeas about the tutorial].

== Template handles "un/safe" text ==

HTML escaped automatically. Or not. ''But'', note that HTML uses ''several'' syntaxes/domains: content (ie, plain text) marked up with HTML must not contain <, >, or & -- these must be escaped. Then, element ''attributes'' must not contain " (double quotes). ''And'' <xmp> nodes must not contain the string "</xmp>", and have no concept of escapes. Ugh.

So, does Django's templating support all this mess?