Thank you for voicing your concerns. I can confirm that we are strongly moving towards having App Engine a component of the Cloud SDK but there are no public plans to deprecate the App Engine SDKs.
If you wish to have multiple services running using dev_appserver.py, you can do so by by running multiple instances of them. As stated in the Local Development Server Options <https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/tools/local-devserver-command> under the *--port* option: > If multiple servers are launched, they will be assigned subsequent ports > (e.g. 8081, 8082, etc) We are aware of user base that prefers the App Engine Launcher. Apart from that, should there be other features that you would like to see implemented in the Cloud SDK, please feel free to file a feature request on the Cloud Platform public issue tracker <https://code.google.com/p/google-cloud-sdk/issues/list>. We welcome the feedback. On Thursday, December 8, 2016 at 2:48:35 PM UTC-5, Hannes Rydén wrote: > > I've been developing sites for App Engine Python for years and have always > loved the Google App Engine Launcher client for Windows. It makes > developing and publishing websites a breeze, compared to most other web > server software. > > Now I wanted to install the latest version, clicked the download button as > usual but were then lead to install the Cloud SDK client instead. So I did. > But gone was the simple graphical interface, and I was met with a confusing > terminal interface instead, which seemed much more limited in functionality > (can I even have multiple sites running at the same time on different > ports?). I can't even find how to start the program again after I shut it > down. > > I finally found the old client download, which was hard to find without > reading forums. Why would you recommend users to use a clearly inferior > product in terms of usability? I think that will deter many new users from > developing on App Engine. > > I think it would be much better if you make the old Launcher the > recommended tool for App Engine instead, and provide the Cloud SDK an > alternative. I really love App Engine, so that's why I'm sad to see when > some new changes seem to make it worse (which is usually not the case, as > you've been making some great changes over the years). > -- 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/8c22d04a-ee54-40d8-8a93-981834965873%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
