Windows compatibility

On PyPi the metadata states that this package is OS Independent. After spending half an hour reading the documentation and setting up a test installation I found out that django-q does not support Windows. After adding it to the django project setting, any management command issued fails with:

ImportError: No module named _curses

As it seems, this is due to the dependency on blessed. Please spare others the same frustration and update pypi metadata and/or add a note about operating support to your readme.

If you´d ever wanted to support windows I can recommend https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama for crossplatform colored terminal output. I can also recommend http://www.appveyor.com/ if you need travis like free windows ci/testing for the project.

Otherwise this looks like a great project. Thanks for making it open source.

[Koed00]

Well I guess I’ll have to install windows somewhere. The sacrifices I make for open source ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[aragentum]

I’m developing project in a Docker container (because my project will use in production on linux server) and django-q works without problems. If you have the same case, you can run django-q separately in container:

Dockerfile

ARG APP_NAME=web
ARG WORKDIR=/usr/src/app
ARG REQUIREMENTS=${APP_NAME}/requirements/development.txt

FROM python:3.7
ARG APP_NAME
ARG WORKDIR
ARG REQUIREMENTS

WORKDIR ${WORKDIR}

COPY ./${APP_NAME} ./${APP_NAME}
COPY ./manage.py ./
COPY ./run.sh ./

RUN chmod +x ./run.sh
RUN pip install -r ${REQUIREMENTS}

run.sh

#!/bin/sh

set -e

until python manage.py migrate; do
  echo "Migration problems, possibly DB server is unavailable"
  sleep 5
done

# you can comment out the line below and change to docker-compose.yml
# tty: true, stdin_open: true, rename 'entrypoint' to 'command', after that you can
# just connect to container and type this command manually
python manage.py qcluster 

docker-compose.yml

version: "3.7"

services:
  dev-web:
    container_name: dev-web
    networks:
      - web-network
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - dev-db
    links:
      - dev-db
    entrypoint: ["./run.sh"]
#    tty: true
#    stdin_open: true
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"

  dev-db:
    container_name: dev-db
    networks:
      - web-network
    image: postgres:10.7
    restart: always
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=django_web
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=django_web
      - POSTGRES_DB=django_web
    command: ["--autovacuum=off"]
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"

networks:
  web-network: