isabella232 / django-versioncheck

Django application which tries to be annoying if your Django version is outdated.

django-versioncheck

Django application which tries to be annoying if your Django version is outdated

Installation

If you want to install the latest stable release from PyPi:

$ pip install django-versioncheck

If you want to install the latest development version from GitHub:

$ pip install -e git://github.com/byteweaver/django-versioncheck#egg=django-versioncheck

Add versioncheck to your INSTALLED_APPS:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'versioncheck',
    ...
)

How to use

At the momement django-versioncheck does just provide a simple management command to display the installed django version and the latest upstream version on PYPI.

$ python manage.py checkversion

Web view usage

Hook this app into your urls.py:

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    ...
    url(r'^versioncheck/', include('versioncheck.urls', namespace='versioncheck')),
    ...
)

WARNING: This view is not secured and exposes your current Django version, use with caution!

Python version notice

The current version is developed to be used with Python 3 and only tested on this major version.

Changelog

See Changelog.md file.

Todo & Roadmap

It is just a protoype, most features are not ready yet.

https://github.com/byteweaver/django-versioncheck/issues