Question

I’m getting set up with proper distribution version control (yes, overdue) on a large Django environment with lot’s of reusable apps and lot’s of projects.

What’s the right way to do this?

1. Clone each app you need within each project, to allow you to make changes to the app without worrying about breaking anything.
2. Have one copy of each version controlled application to avoid having multiple copies of the code, each in its own repository.
3. Or is there a better way?

Thanks.

Edit for clarity: These are in house apps that are reused from project to project.

Answer 1

In my opinion the best practice is to keep all your apps as one library/package. You can have versions/snapshots (e.g. tags in hg) and branches and you should definitely create and configure setup.py file.