Installing django-messages

Basically all you have to do is get the messages folder somewhere on the Python path. There are multiple ways to achive this.

Quickstart

If you already downloaded the package change into the django-messages directory and run:

python setup.py install

Otherwise you will find more information in the remainder of this document.

Django-messages is available via PyPi, so the following command will download and install django-messages on your system in one step:

easy_install django-messages

If you prefer using pip, you may achieve the same result by running:

pip install django-messages

Download

You will always find and download the latest packaged version at: http://code.google.com/p/django-messages/downloads/list

If you prefer to use the current developement version to get earlier access to new features you can checkout the code from the SVN repository:

svn checkout http://django-messages.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django-messages

Install

If you downloaded the tar-ball extract it with (change the version number if required):

tar -xcvf django-messages-0.4.tar.gz

After extracting the tar-ball or checking out the code from the repository, change into the django-messages directory and install the code:

cd django-messages
python setup.py install

Manual Install

Instead of using setup.py install it is also possible to copy or symlink the messages folder inside the toplevel django-messages folder to your Python path. This will be enough to make djano-messages available to your system.

Dependencies

Django-messages has no external dependencies except for Django. Starting with version 0.3 Django 1.0 or later is required. If you have to use Django 0.96.x you might still use version 0.2 (unsupported).

Django-messages has some features which may use an external app if it is present in the current Django project. Please note, that these apps have to be listed in INSTALLED_APPS to be used by django-messages.

• If you use django-notification django-messages will use it for sending notifications to users about new messages instead of using the built-in mechanism
• If django-mailer is used the built-in messages sending code will use it instead of the django built-in send_mail function.

Please note that we try to support Python 2.4, but as we develop django-messages on Python 2.5 sometimes code might slip in which breaks Python 2.4 compatibility. This can be considered a bug and you can help us by reporting the incompytibility.