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Django on scripts.mit.edu updated to 1.0 and made default

We’ve updated the Django Python package on scripts to the
recently-released 1.0 final version, as part of a standard Fedora package
update. We will be releasing an auto-installer soon, although you can
manually set up Django with the django-admin.py command and the sample
FastCGI wrapper on the Django web site.

If you’re currently using a Django 0.96 site, you can keep Django sites in
your locker at version 0.96 by adding the following lines to the top of
your FastCGI wrapper and manage.py, before any import statements referencing “django”:

__requires__='Django<1.0'
import pkg_resources
pkg_resources.require('Django<1.0')

If this does not work for you, you can try running the following Athena commands, where LOCKER is the locker with an old Django install:

attach LOCKER
mkdir -p /mit/LOCKER/lib/python2.5/site-packages
cd /mit/LOCKER/lib/python2.5/site-packages
fs sa . daemon.scripts read
echo 'import sys; sys.path.insert(0, "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Django-0.96_None-py2.5.egg")' > 00django-path.pth

This will make the Django 0.96 package take precedence for all sites in your locker. You can delete the 00django-path.pth file when you’re ready to upgrade to 1.0.

We will keep Django 0.96 available until at least the end of fall term.

Cron issues (resolved) CGI scripts will soon require the executable bit