For brevity feel free to use "DKK" (Django Komodo Kit) to indicate this project whenever writing below.

Developer Resources

• Komodo Extensions & Macros Forum
• Komodo Community Forums

Implementation Strategies

The goal is to utilize the built-in user extension tools as much as possible to form the core functionality. The Komodo platform is flexible with regards to how you can use and reference collections of files/snippets/commands/... Whenever something isn't obvious to accomplish you can just create a command that runs a python script. This isn't meant to discourage anyone from exploring some of the more "exotic" strategies of writing extensions, writing XPCOM, or Python (+Django) + XUL. We'll need to weigh the pros and cons of those once we're ready to tackle some cool usability features.

KomodoExtensionStrategies

Misc. Feature Ideas

Near

• A toolbar for creating Django components: Model, Manager, Field, Form, etc.
• Add Template Library for current project
• Add template tag
• New Project, New App. Ability to customize the outputs. For example: settings customizations, include other common files like fields.py, forms.py, etc. by default.

• Form editors for settings.py and urls.py
• Wizard for creating a new project, app, and setting up models, etc.
• This can probably be accomplished in a wizard-like way by using a combination of custom commands and a macro. Having a forms-based process would be a nice touch.
• see Creating Project Templates from Macros

• Expose the manage.py commands via menus/toolbars
• One click dump of all the sql commands

• Auto-complete, context sensitive documentation for templates and template tags

• Manage virtual Python environments (virtualenv) via menu and toolbar

• Integrate django-command-extensions

Far

• The DTL parser does not understand inheritance (via {% extends base.html %}). Therefore, it complains that the (X)HTML header is missing and, consequently, the document is not valid and well-formed. The header would be in base.html, though, for example. See Bug #77251

• Django-Evolution support

• Application Deployment Management

• (IDE ONLY) Integrate debugger with development server

Debugging is described here and it works as a toolbox command using the second option mentioned there (port number may vary, see under Debug/Listener Status and change in Preferences/Debug/Connection):

/path-to-komodo-install/lib/support/dbgp/bin/pydbgp -d localhost:9000 manage.py runserver --noreload