Correct way to develop a new Project template about django-twoscoops-project

[pydanny]

For working on a template like this I recommend using virtualenv to manage dependencies. After that, working on the template is a matter of:

1. Forking the project.
2. Doing repeated builds until you get what you want.

Unfortunately, because django-admin.py's startproject is so limited in functionality, there is no realistic way to automate the process of template creation. Especially if you are factoring testing of the project once it's created. This makes it a manual effort, and can admittedly get tedious.

There is a solution, but it's outside of Django. Two Scoops of Django co-author Audrey Roy has created a library called cookiecutter which does what startproject does, but also much more. Because it has a easily extendable internal API, it's possible to automate the process of testing Django project templates. I don't have any examples of it being used this way that I can show you, but I know others are claiming they are using it that way.