This Django project houses my actively maintained websites, and custom web-based tools I use.
This project includes pip-tools for dependency
management. There are two requirements files: requirements.in provides the acceptable
ranges of packages to install in a production environment (or any other environment);
requirements-dev.in provides packages to install in development environments. Both of
these have corresponding "pin" files: requirements.txt and requirements-dev.txt.
To add a new dependency, add it to the correct .in file, and then run
manage.py pipsync to regenerate the pin files and synchronize your current virtual
environment with the new pin files.
Any arguments passed to manage.py pipsync will be passed through to the underlying
pip-compile command. For example, to bump to the latest Django patch release use
manage.py pipsync --upgrade-package django. See the
pip-tools docs for complete details.
The pin files are not included in the template repository, but will be generated when
you run manage.py devsetup. This ensures you will get the latest version of Django and
related packages when starting a new project.