installing django trunk

[Malik Rumi]

I am going from 1.6.1 to 1.7a2, mostly to take advantage of the new migrations feature.

I followed the directions here http://django.readthedocs.org/en/latest/topics/install.html#removing-old-versions-of-django 

Since I originally installed with pip, supposedly that would take care of removing the old version for me if I installed with pip now.

I changed into the subdirectory where 1.6.1 is, which is inside virtualenvwrapper.

The commands they gave ran and reported success. However, 1.7a2 has been installed at Python27/Scripts, not inside my virtualenv

1.6.1 seems to alive and well at its same original location.

What do I now? Can I just delete the 1.6.1 folder? Will pip/virtualenv know where to find 1.7a2 for my cuurent projects? Should I start the install over?

Thx.

[Dan Gentry]

Malik, in order to install within your virtualenv, you should activate it first  <path to env>/bin/activate .  Then run the pip install command.  Cheers!

[Malik Rumi]

First, Dan, thanks for the reply. Second, apologies for the long delay, but sometimes the day job gets in the way. Third, I did as you suggested, but Django 1.6.1 was NOT removed. My best guess is that the official documentation instruction that pip would take care of this for me only applies when going from one official release to another, not when going from an official release to a development release, though of course it does not say so explicitly.

pip did uninstall the 1.7 files from Python27/Scripts when I pointed it to them directly. I should add at this point that at the time of my original post, I did not realize that there were only 4 of them and that django-trunk was in the intended virtualenv alongside 1.6.1. 

However, pip would not only not uninstall django-trunk, it told me it wasn't installed, never mind the folder sitting there. Even better, git remove didn't work either. "Fatal: not a git repository"

So I deleted django-trunk the old fashioned way, through my OS. Then I activated the virtualenv, reconnected to git, and got django-trunk and the admin files where I expected them to be - in the virtualenv. When I saw this in my terminal window:

 Adding Django 1.7a2 to easy-install.pth file

    Deleting C:\Envs\VE1\Scripts\django-admin.py

    Installing django-admin-script.py script to C:\Envs\VE1\Scripts

I assumed that meant it was taking care of 1.6.1 at the same time it was installing 1.7a2, as I understood the install instructions to say it would do. But when I ran print(django.get_version()), I got 1.6.1!

Then I deleted both the django folder and the egg folder through Windows, but when I ran get_version again, I STILL got 1.6.1! I don't see how that is possible. There is another Django 1.6.1, but it is inside a DIFFERENT virtualenv, and when I exited the Python interpreter, I was right back to the VE I was working with. There is a django-admin in Python27, but when I opened it, it explicitly said that it was 1.7a2! Now it also had a line of code I didn't understand:

require('Django==1.7a2')

del require

What is this doing? Deleting a requirement as soon as it is created? I don't understand. 

Finally, I decided to runserver. The good news is that my site still works as it did before. The bad news is I have no idea how or why. Runserver also explicitly stated that it was running 1.6.1.

So, I guess I'll have to muddle along without migrations, which was the whole point of this exercise in futility. But I sure would like to understand what is happening here, if any of you wiser and more experienced heads can enlighten me. 

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[Malik Rumi]

Anybody? A little help here?

Just to update, I ran a search for 'migrations' in my django folder, and got a lot of hits, but when I tried to actually run 'makemigrations" I got 'unknown command'

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