It appears that the documentation now recommends using the version of App Engine shipped with gcloud (via gcloud components install app-engine-python). However, this version does not include any of the built-in versions of Django, which can be loaded by adding references to the "libraries" section. Is this an intentional change, or is this a bug? It is annoying because it means that an app that works with the standalone version of dev_appserver.py may not work with the gcloud version. It also means the documentation is wrong in many places. Its relatively easy to fix by vendoring django, but it would be nice to fix the documentation and make the two distributions be the same.
Details: Here is the diff -u output between ls google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib and ls google_appengine/lib. You can see that the gcloud version is missing all versions of django, and graphy. --- appengine 2016-09-30 11:43:22.000000000 -0400 +++ gcloud 2016-09-30 11:42:07.000000000 -0400 @@ -8,17 +8,10 @@ concurrent deprecated_enum distutils -django-0.96 -django-1.2 -django-1.3 -django-1.4 -django-1.5 -django-1.9 docker endpoints-1.0 fancy_urllib google-api-python-client -graphy grizzled httplib2 ipaddr -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/e3f1ae1d-b9d9-4d39-a4cb-2a274ed48d9e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
