While django-basic-blog is perfectly sufficient to power this site, I was interested in testing how Monty Lounge extended it. You see, django-mingus isn't really an application itself; there's really not much code involved. It is more like a recipe for combining a number of existing reusable Django applications that make up a solid blogging platform. The article The apps that power Django-Mingus describes the 28 apps that have been nicely imaplemented into a single project.
My experience setting my Django-mingus blog was ridiculously simple. My only issues were related to the pip install script...
- BitBucket was down tonight...
- One updated dependency had had trouble finding the version specified ...
- One dependency was broken
- I had to change it to use git+http:// since my web host blocked traffic on the git:// port
Other than that, I didn't have to do much customization. I treated my site design just like a new Mingus theme and attempted to make all my changes in CSS. I did have to rearrange some of the HTML to support my layout. I then did a bunch of clean-up in the Django templates to get consistent page titles and page themes.
I'm only using a few of the apps included with Mingus... I'll be digging into the rest to see whether I'm missing out.
