Virtual environment setup

[brad]

Have you considered setting this up with a virtual environment? I got it working with these simple steps:

## After activating the virtual environment
$ pip install "django>=1.5,<=1.6" django-appconf django-jsonfield south pil psycopg2
## Note that installing psycopg2 via pip removes an apt-get dependancy

## Now install pycairo to the virtualenv
$ curl http://cairographics.org/releases/py2cairo-1.10.0.tar.bz2 | tar jxv
$ ./waf --prefix=$VIRTUALENV configure
$ ./waf build
$ ./waf install

Personally, I like to keep all the python dependancies in the virtual environment to avoid clashing with any other projects I'm working on. Also, this reduces the number of Ubuntu-specific dependencies slightly.

[JoshData]

Sure, I'd be happy to include alternate virtualenv-style build instructions. And I didn't know where to get py2cairo, so I appreciate that you dug up those instructions. What's 'waf' by the way?

[brad]

I actually have no clue what 'waf' is, but I found the instructions here and pycairo is here. Actually, revisiting that stackoverflow page, I noticed the answer that points out the project "cairocffi", which is pip installable and API compatible with pycairo. You may want to try that.

[JoshData]

Huh, cool. Thanks. I'll update the README with these pointers.