Re: [Pydev-users] Setting up Eclipse pydev on existing django projects

[Fabio Z. <fa...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Gary Roach <gar...@ve...>
wrote:

> Hi all;
>
> My first post to this site. Hope I don't screw it up.
>
> I am working on an archiving project for an organization. To facilitate
> the learning process, I have set up multiple virtual environments using
> pyvenv. I was using Ninja-ide but found it wanting (no development or
> bug fixing). I have switched over to Eclipse with the PyDev plugin.
>
> System:
>         Debian Stretch (9 ?)
>         Kde desktop
>         Python 3.4 (In venv)
>         Django 1.8 (In venv)
>         Eclipse Mars.1
>
> One venv is being used for my project, another is used for the mysite
> tutorial and third was being used for Tango With Django. I quit the
> third because of problems using Django 1.7 and Python 2.7.
>
> I have the original files in /root/MySiteHowto and /root/UUArchive. Both
> these projects work but I got bogged down because of IDE problems.
> The project structures are standard layouts. If you need this info the
> easiest way is to look at the djangoproject.com documentation.
>
> I wish to change the projects to /home/gary/workspace/(mysite and
> UUArchive) and put them under Eclipse project control.
>
> I have tried several times to transpose the mysite project but with poor
> results. I get tangled up in the virtual environment and the project
> preferences.
>
> I can't believe that I am the first person to encounter this problem. A
> cook book method would be really nice but all help will be appreciated.
>
> Gary R
>

​Hi Gary,

I haven't understood very well how you structured things... can you push
that to GitHub so that I can take a look at the structure?

As for the virtualenvs, which libraries you have in each virtualenv?

​If you're getting tangled up in the virtualenvs, my initial suggestion
would be just keeping a single virtualenv with the libraries for all the
projects you need and use that as the interpreter in PyDev and then or each
project create a new pydev project pointing to existing sources​ initially
without any PYTHONPATH configured and then configure the project source
folders (i.e.: folders to be added to the PYTHONPATH:
http://www.pydev.org/manual_101_project_conf2.html) and to finish, set the
project as a Django Project in PyDev (right-click project > PyDev > Set as
Django Project).

By doing so, you should be able to right-click the project > run as >
pydev: django (and things as code-completion, etc should be working).

If you still have problems, pointing to github with your project contents
would help a lot (don't forget to commit the .project and the .pydevproject
files so that I can actually inspect how you configured things there).

Best Regards,

Fabio