Installing django-messages¶
Basically all you have to do is get the messages
folder somewhere on the
Python path. There are multiple ways to achive this.
Quickstart¶
If you already downloaded the package change into the django-messages
directory and run:
python setup.py install
Otherwise you will find more information in the remainder of this document.
Django-messages is available via PyPi, so the following command will download and install django-messages on your system in one step:
easy_install django-messages
If you prefer using pip, you may achieve the same result by running:
pip install django-messages
Download¶
You will always find and download the latest packaged version at: http://code.google.com/p/django-messages/downloads/list
If you prefer to use the current developement version to get earlier access to new features you can checkout the code from the GIT repository:
git clone https://github.com/arneb/django-messages.git
Install¶
If you downloaded the tar-ball extract it with (change the version number if required):
tar -xcvf django-messages-0.4.tar.gz
After extracting the tar-ball or checking out the code from the repository,
change into the django-messages
directory and install the code:
cd django-messages
python setup.py install
Manual Install¶
Instead of using setup.py install
it is also possible to copy or symlink
the django_messages
folder inside the toplevel django-messages
folder
to your Python path. This will be enough to make djano-messages available to
your system.
Dependencies¶
Django-messages has no external dependencies except for Django. Starting with version 0.4 Django 1.1 or later is required. Version 0.3 works with Django 1.0. If you have to use Django 0.96.x you might still use version 0.2 (unsupported).
Django-messages has some features which may use an external app if it is
present in the current Django project. Please note, that these apps have to
be listed in INSTALLED_APPS
to be used by django-messages.
- If you use pinax-notifications django-messages will use it for sending notifications to users about new messages instead of using the built-in mechanism
- If django-mailer is used the built-in messages sending code will use it
instead of the django built-in
send_mail
function.
Please note that we try to support Python 2.4, but as we develop django-messages on Python 2.5 sometimes code might slip in which breaks Python 2.4 compatibility. This can be considered a bug and you can help us by reporting the incompytibility.