Project generation

[rvanlaar]

Djangorecipe currently supports project generation. This duplicates a lot of code that the regular django-admin.py does.

Is the project generation needed?
Can we just call django-admin.py generate?

[reinout]

I never use(d) it myself.
@jjmurre said yesterday that he still used it, so he might be the one to talk to.
One thing to watch is whether a setup.py is being generated by Django. (I didn't check)

[reinout]

There are a couple of related issues, I tagged them: https://github.com/rvanlaar/djangorecipe/issues?labels=projectgeneration&page=1&state=open

[andrewebdev]

I always generate my own, here is my workflow and config workaround:

First I run buildout as normal and djangorecipe will autogen a project template. I immediately delete that folder :)

Next I run bin/django-admin startproject <projectname>

The last thing to do is to just add that project path into extra-paths:

[django]
recipe = djangorecipe
project = <projectname>
settings = settings
control-script = <projectname>
extra-paths = ${buildout:directory}/<projectname>/
eggs = ${buildout:eggs}

[reinout]

Project generation stuff is gone in 2.0 :-)