The django-productline tutorial

Welcome to the tutorial for django-productline. Django-produtline is a python package turning django into a feature-oriented framework for web application productlines. This tutorial teaches how to setup and maintain django-productline projects and conveys the basics of feature oriented software development (FOSD) in Python.

django productline does not affect the way of how to develop django applications but the methotodology of organizing existing functionality for better reuse. django-productline radically reduces the amount of glue code and emphazises reuse.

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Introduction

This section gives a basic introduction to djpl and the anatomy of djpl projects.

• Installing django-productline
• Example project
  • Downloading the example project
  • Configuration, syncdb, runserver
• Anatomy of a project
• Features and products
• Difference between apps and features
• Anatomy of a feature

Quick Reference

This content provides a set of quick reference articles about the usage of djpl without additional explanations.

• Installing a djpl environment
• Seting up an existing project
• A recommended product.equation
• A list of available features

Advanced

• Projects
  • Creating a project
  • Installing an existing project
  • Adding products
  • Adding features
  • Writing an install.py
• Ape tasks
  • django_productline base tasks
  • Product-aware tasks
  • Writing tasks
  • Refining tasks
• Features
  • Writing a feature
  • Introduce and refine
  • Writing tasks
  • Features that require context