nensskel 1.6

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.

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.