Small change to setup.py, "pip installable" directly from the repository now.

[vitormazzi]

I'm starting to use this project, and have the habit of installing it directly from github using pip, what was not possible due to the cleanup which was made at the end of setup.py.

I'm looking forward to collaborate in this project, as it is promising to be very useful to me. Is there any points in particular where you feel some work is needed?

[tomchristie]

I'm looking forward to collaborate in this project, as it is promising to
be very useful to me.
Is there any points in particular where you feel some work is needed?

Fab! The first thing to do would be to join the discussion group:

http://groups.google.com/group/django-rest-framework

Secondly, the other way around - I'd really like to get your perspective
as a user on what you think needs improving,
and also - what would you be most interested in working on? Mostly I'm just
hugely happy to be starting to get some contributors to the project, feels
like it's passed a big hurdle. Absolutely any time you're able to spend
contributing is appreciated, whether it's bug reports, general feedback and
being active on the mailing list, or if it's actual checkins.

Some things I can think of that need some work.

1. Core stuff (I'm currently working on, prob not worth other devs. worrying
   about this just yet.)

• supporting nested resources
• better reuse of resources between different views (involves decoupling
  resources from views)
• removing requirement for absolute_url on models
• a shortcut to automatically build a complete API for all installed
  models
• framework for permissions
• better automatic support of ForeignKey and related models.

2. Authentication and permissions (Good ones to pick from)

• OAuth authentication
• Digest authentication
• Authentication based on a token with a key/secret rather than based on
  user with username/password.
• Throttling (I think marko is picking up on this)

3. Parsers and emitters (Also good ones to pick from)

• A file upload parser (ie for doing PUT to a view, with file content as
  the payload)
• xml parser
• yaml emitter + parser

4. Documentation

I can give guidance on any of these if something jumps out at you?
I'm going to try to co-ordinate a push forward on the mailing list so I'll
prob be posting a similar list there shortly...

Thanks so much for the offer of help! It's really really appreciated!

t.

On 2 May 2011 16:35, vitormazzi <
[email protected]>wrote:

I'm starting to use this project, and have the habit of installing it
directly from github using pip, what was not possible due to the cleanup
which was made at the end of setup.py.

I'm looking forward to collaborate in this project, as it is promising to
be very useful to me. Is there any points in particular where you feel some
work is needed?

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