I've recently begun looking at web2py. It looks very nice. However, one thing that seems strange to me is that it is apparently not set up to be installed. Rather, to "install" it you just copy the web2py files (or clone the repo) into a directory. That install then "knows" about all the applications stored under its directory tree.
This seems like a rather odd setup. With this setup, my application is stored under the web2py directory tree. But I want to put my application code in its own directory --- in particular, in its own repository. My application's code should be handled separately from the code of web2py itself. Also, it's not clear to me how I would then deploy my application without also "installing" web2py separately for each app. So, if I want to copy some files to my web server to run an app, I would expect to install web2py ONCE to the server, and then set up my app to use the existing web2py installation. But with the way it's actually set up, it appears I would have to install separate copies of web2py for each app, which seems rather wasteful. I found an old post (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/web2py/3FWZCmLzhzc) where someone talks about handling this by symlinking from the web2py directory to the "real" app directory. Is this really the way you have to do it? Isn't there a way to take JUST my own application code, and tell it where to find web2py (or tell web2py where to find my app), and then get web2py to run my app regardless of where they each are on the drive? I want a clean separation between the code that is part of the web2py framework itself and the code that is specific to my app. Thanks, Brendan -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
