From 05ed50cded946ac52e792423a7ec557ec7a51c98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joseph Turian <turian@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:54:58 -0500
Subject: Added pip+virtualenv installation (simpler+cleaner)

---
 .gitignore            |  2 ++
 INSTALL               |  5 +++++
 INSTALL.pip           | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 osqa-requirements.txt |  9 +++++++++
 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 INSTALL.pip
 create mode 100644 osqa-requirements.txt

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 69133c46..16d8a5f0 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *.pyc
 *.swp
 *.log
+env
 nbproject
+pip-log.txt
 settings_local.py
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 72cc76bf..60e3617c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ D. CUSTOMIZATION
 
 A. PREREQUISITES
 -----------------------------------------------
+
+You can either follow the directions in this section, or you can read
+INSTALL.pip, which is simpler and creates a sandbox for your Python
+environment.
+
 0. We recommend you to use python-setuptools to install pre-requirement libraries.
 If you haven't installed it, please try to install it first.
 e.g, sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
diff --git a/INSTALL.pip b/INSTALL.pip
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e04be3db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/INSTALL.pip
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+* Install virtualenv and pip:
+    easy_install virtualenv
+    easy_install pip
+
+* Install mysql-python system-wide, because we can't install it with pip
+    sudo easy_install mysql-python
+        or
+    sudo apt-get install python-mysqldb
+
+    For more information about why pip can't automatically install the
+    MySQL driver, see this message:
+        http://groups.google.com/group/python-virtualenv/msg/ea988085951c92b3
+
+* Install sphinxsearch. See:
+    [optional]
+    http://sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html
+    http://www.hackido.com/2009/01/install-sphinx-search-on-ubuntu.html
+    git://github.com/johnl/deb-sphinx-search.git
+
+* Run pip installation:
+    pip install -E env -r osqa-requirements.txt 
+
+* Notice that you will need to register with recaptcha.net and receive
+    recaptcha public and private keys that need to be saved in your
+    settings_local.py file
diff --git a/osqa-requirements.txt b/osqa-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..66a37fbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/osqa-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+django>=1.1         # Note: email subscription sender job requires Django 1.1, everything else works with 1.0
+#mysql-python       # Can't use with pip, see http://groups.google.com/group/python-virtualenv/msg/ea988085951c92b3
+python-openid
+html5lib
+markdown2
+git+git://github.com/robhudson/django-debug-toolbar.git
+git+git://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx.git
+svn+http://recaptcha-django.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
+svn+http://recaptcha.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/recaptcha-plugins/python/
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