nensskel 1.23

Company-centricity

Nensskel originates at Nelen & Schuurmans, so we’ve of course set it up just the way we like it. And we change it the way we like it.

It does, however, give you a good example for full django applications/sites with a complete setup. For example, the django sites come with a full-blown apache config. And django-staticfiles is included for the easy css/js setup.

Example for your own skeleton

When you want to create your own skeleton, nensskel can be a nice, small example. Just download the .tar.gz and unpack it.

Do the regular python bootstrap.py && bin/buildout and you’re set up. The nensskel and paster script are created in the bin/ directory.

There’s one python script in nensskel/*.py per template. The actual templates are in nensskel/templates/*. See http://pythonpaste.org/script/developer.html for some limited documentation on what paster can do. If you want more elaborate examples: http://svn.plone.org/svn/collective/ZopeSkel/trunk/ is the most elaborate set of templates available.

Development and issue tracker

Nensskel is developed on github: https://github.com/lizardsystem/nensskel .

The issue tracker is there, too: https://github.com/lizardsystem/nensskel/issues .

1.23 (unreleased)

• Updated lizardsite skeleton to latest server configuration and fabfile.

• Added stagingsettings.py, staging.cfg

• Made tests work

1.22 (2011-12-08)

• Added a templates/ subdirectory to the djangoapp.

• Renamed media/ dir in djangoapp to static/ to match Django 1.3.

1.21 (2011-11-15)

• Using latest and greatest server setup. Including nginx and sitesetup.

1.20 (2011-10-21)

• Added MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT to the djangoapp template. The debugmode urlpatterns loaded in urls.py fail with a traceback otherwise.

1.19 (2011-10-18)

• Updated the .coveragerc to be more complete.

1.18 (2011-10-18)

• Not git-ignoring *.mo files by default: django doesn’t compile them on the fly, so they need to be included with the source code.

• Using ‘graft’ option in the MANIFEST.in to just include everything in our project directory. .pyc/pyo files are excluded anyway, so this is more or less OK.

1.17 (2011-09-30)

• Important bugfix: the “hidden” .something files weren’t being generated. They are now.

1.16 (2011-09-09)

• Added git ignore file and basic MANIFEST.in to the templates.

• Removed unneeded lizard-ui middleware as django 1.3’s logging handles it.

• Adjusted context processors to django 1.3’s default list.

• Added logging setup for sentry in the lizard site template.

• Cleaned up the urls.py from djangoapp.

1.15 (2011-08-25)

• Added the KGS to djangoapp and sites and updated for django 1.3.

• Removed map_settings from lizardsite settings.py.

• Commented out wsgiimmportscript in apache conf (it gives an error).

• Added lizard-map context processor (outcommented) in lizardsite settings.py.

1.14 (2011-05-30)

• Adding deadlock-timeout and especially display-name to the wsgi config. The deadlock might help with shapefiles clogging up the server. The display-name shows you which server is actually using up the CPU/mem instead of just showing ‘apache2’.

1.13 (2011-05-23)

• Re-release of 1.12 as that download tarball was broken.

• Adding django.contrib.gis to the INSTALLED_APPS lists as that’s needed for south migrations of geo fields.

• nens_djangoapp’s testsettings.py was missing an import os.

1.12 (2011-04-13)

• Modifying the middleware to include SentryResponseErrorIdMiddleware.

1.11 (2011-04-13)

• Added django-sentry to the Lizardsite template.

• Adding new file setup.py_tmpl to Lizardsite template.

• Updating +package+/settings.py_tmpl which adds sentry to INSTALLED_APPS.

1.10 (2011-03-31)

• Adding mostly-empty READMEs to the two empty ‘fixtures’ and ‘media/+package+’ dirs in the django app template. On some machines, the empty directories were not getting created. This way they are.

• Svn-ignoring the doc/build directory (with sphinx output).

• Added svn revert instructions for testsettings.py in the website template (in addition to removing the file).

1.9 (2011-03-02)

• Small restructured text heading level fixes for the sphinx documentation.

1.8 (2011-02-01)

• Removed buildout usage part from the readme.rst as it gets repeated lots of times all over the place this way.

• Added matplotlib tweaks to the django site settings.py.

• Added django-extensions to the standard dependencies of django apps so that we can get a model graph.

1.7 (2011-01-19)

• Added sphinx setup. Also swapped the .txt files for .rst ones.

1.6.1 (2010-12-03)

• Fixed too-restrictive regex in apache’s openlayers AliasMatch: the openlayers css/icons now also work in the root of the site…

1.6 (2010-12-03)

• Added sysegg part to the buildouts.

1.5 (2010-12-03)

• Printing .egginfo directory removal instructions.

• Updated list of standard svn:ignores.

• Added django gzip middleware to the lizardsite template.

• Added lizard-ui’s traceback logging middleware to lizardsite.

• Added lizard-map’s map settings to the django settings.py in lizardsite.

• Removed windows apache configuration.

• Added gzip (“mod_deflate”) for js/css in the apache config.

• Eternally caching the django-compressor combined js/css files.

• Added logging setup to lizardsite.

• Added 500.html and 404.html to lizardsite template.

• Added openlayers img/ and theme/ aliases to compensate for openlayers’ weirdness.

• Added extra part to the lizardsite buildout for automatic bin/django build_static running so we won’t ever forget to do that.

• Updated database settings to new django multiple databases style.

1.4 (2010-10-15)

• Added setup.cfg that tells nose to output xml test reports for use with Hudson.

• Fixes to the test setup of django_app.

1.3 (2010-10-01)

• Added copyright notice at the top of every file including pointer to the LICENSE.txt GPL file. No, I’m not copy/pasting 10 unneeded lines of GPL boilerplate into every file.

1.2 (2010-08-25)

• Bootstrap.py adjustments: using the 1.4.x buildout one for now.

1.1.1 (2010-08-10)

• Documentation update.

1.1 (2010-08-10)

• Changed test setup of djangoapp and lizardsite to match Reinout’s latest experiments :-)

1.0 (2010-08-03)

• Added coverage support both to nensskel itself and to the templates.

0.5 (2010-08-02)

• Added django compressor settings to the lizardsite template.

• Added lizard-ui as a standard dependency for django applications.

0.4 (2010-05-20)

• Removed ipython as it regularly fails to download, sadly. Can be re-added after buildout gains a timeout setting (in the .cfg files).

0.3 (2010-03-22)

• Django STATIC_URL/MEDIA_URL clarification and usage improvement after discussion on http://bitbucket.org/jezdez/django-staticfiles/issue/12/

• Added apache config (with a separate one for windows that still needs some work).

0.2 (2010-02-12)

• Django fixes after using skeleton in real life.

0.1 (2010-02-11)

• Added nensskel script as a handy wrapper around paster create.

• Added lizardsite skeleton (which needs checking and probably modifications).

• Added djangoapp skeleton.

• Added library skeleton.

• Added test that creates instances of all skeletons and runs their bin/buildout. Smoke test: switch everything on and see if smoke comes out.

• Reinout copied relevant parts from the thaskel and zestskel that he made for the two previous companies he worked for.