I spent a little time looking at Satchmo, an ecommerce framework built on Django. Overall it’s very promising but not ready for prime time yet.

On a side note I’m not sure about the name. I REALLY like Louis Armstrong and feel if the satchmo framework really takes off, which there is a danger of, it will somehow diminish this jazz great. At least in Google ranking. Think of the poor Ruby merchants ( the gemstone ) after rails took off, they perhaps had to vacation at that smaller city on the French Riviera. Or the poor shock absorber stores, after the advent of “Struts”. I’m thinking of making a Super Successful framework and calling it “Brittany” I’d do the world a service by drowning out references to the “Other Brittany” in all the noise about my framework…..

Enough BS

Here is how I set it up.

Set up Satchmo:

Get satchmo from subversion
svn co http://svn.satchmo.python-hosting.com/trunk/

install python imaging [http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/]
install python crypto [http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto]

Edit local_settings.py to have you database specific information:
DATABASE_NAME = 'Your DB Name Here'
DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'Your DB Password Here'
DATABASE_USER = 'Your DB User Here'
SECRET_KEY = 'Your secret key her'
cp settings-customize.py settings.py
cp local_settings-customize.py local_settings.py

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=satchmo.settings
export PYTHONPATH=/Users/joel/satchmo
python load_data.py

I downloaded and installed this, don't know why
http://groups.google.com/group/django-ecommerce/browse_thread/thread/fc67a596ee4d3fd2/6a622ccd81b8b708

Start the server
manage.py runserver

visit your site on port 8000