changeset 183:cd24b475ca76

Added notes to README
author Atul Varma <varmaa@toolness.com>
date Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:30:48 -0700
parents f1a9f5f820d7
children 0e7a88b20c2b
files README
diffstat 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/README	Wed Apr 16 20:03:26 2008 -0700
+++ b/README	Thu Apr 17 11:30:48 2008 -0700
@@ -6,9 +6,14 @@
 
   http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk
 
-It's also assumed that you are running Python 2.5 or later.  While
-this project may run under earlier versions of Python, there are no
-guarantees.
+You'll also need at least Python 2.4.  It's also assumed that you are
+running Python 2.5 or later.  While this project may run under earlier
+versions of Python, there are no guarantees.
+
+If you're using Python 2.4, you'll also need to either get pysqlite or
+set a different database backend in personasbackend/settings.py.
+(Pysqlite comes with Python 2.5, which is why you don't need to do
+anything if you're using that.)
 
 To run the web application, cd into the 'personasbackend' directory
 and run:
@@ -20,6 +25,10 @@
 
   python manage.py test
 
+(NOTE: As of April 17, 2008, the unit tests won't succeed due to what
+appears to be a bug in Django.  See
+http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/5176 for more information.)
+
 If you need more help, try:
 
   python manage.py --help