Playing with Django and Pinax - Mac OSX/MySQL

Installing Django - just followed instructions on django site http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/install/

Then ran through the tutorials

Then installed pinax using svn command here http://code.google.com/p/django-hotclub/source/checkout

Tried synchdb but didn't have PIL installed so got a load of errors.

Didn't have PIL so followed instructions here: http://www.p16blog.com/p16/2008/05/appengine-installing-pil-on-os-x-1053.html

setup data tables using
python ./manage.py syncdb

Wanted to use mysql - so installed ez_install
- downloaded egg here http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
- ran: sh setuptools-0.6c9-py2.5.egg

easy_install mysql-python


Then started mysql and created a new database and changed settings.py to use mysql and point to new database.

now syncdb again and tables created in mysql!
run: ./manage.py runserver
and pinax app available at http://127.0.0.1:8000

Wow!