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Entries published on March 27, 2007

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Reusable Django apps

A little while back I released a couple of Django apps to the world, and I’ve got a couple more in the pipeline (whenever some more of my copious free time rolls around, I’ll finish them up and get them out the door as well), so I’ve been thinking a bit about best practices for making them as easily reusable as possible. And James Tauber has started up a mailing list for discussing a Django application repository (anyone who’s interested in that should join up and get the discussion going), where he’s posed some questions about that exact topic.

So here are my random initial thoughts and ideas on the matter.

Packaging

This seems to be the one lots of people get hung up on: what format should Django apps be distributed in? Eggs are an obvious choice, and easy_install has wonderful integration with the Cheese Shop, but there …

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