Thank you for your comments Jonathan. I have updated the tutorial here:
http://opensourcebroadcasting.blogspot.com/2010/04/setting-up-web2py-for-use-with-google.html and here: http://www.web2pyslices.com/main/slices/take_slice/126 to include changing the references to the welcome app, as well as mentioning the benefit of app versioning. On Mar 27, 4:50 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Mar 27, 2011, at 3:21 AM, johntynan wrote: > > > > > I had written a tutorial about Setting up web2py for use with Google > > App Engine here: > > >http://opensourcebroadcasting.blogspot.com/2010/04/setting-up-web2py-... > > > Please feel free to have a look and let me know if this helps you. > > > Also, please feel free to let me know if anything has gone out of > > date. > > It looks to me like the instructions will work OK for OS X, with some minor > alterations. /home/joesmith becomes /Users/joesmith. I ended up doing a > parallel installation of Python 2.5 and connecting theGAEapps to that; I'm > not sure if that's necessary, but it was an easy way to shut up one > ofGAE'scomplaints. > > However, OS X (and Windows) users are probably going to use the very > handyGAEGUI application for testing and deployment. > > Finally, it might be worth noting that there might be some other changes > required to app.yaml. The example is set up to deploy the web2py welcome app, > and it tries to keep the upload fairly lightweight, skipping some of the > less-often-used contrib files and the like. > > You might also mention the use ofGAE'sapp versioning, which can be handy for > uploading newer versions for test purposes without making them the default.
