Note: We ( I? ) could get a mercurial repo going for this in order to make
it easier to maintain. Now it is a scattered collection of files. In the
mean time here is a rough how to for anyone that needs it...
Creating your own pip installable pypi dstribution of Web2py
If you have the latest version of Web2py it is easy to create your own
custom pip installable Web2py package.
Option 1
For testing you can create the pypi package (pypi refers to them as
distributions) by running the following command in the targeted version of
Web2py::
cd web2py
rm ./dist/web2py-1.98.2.tar.gz
python setup.py sdist
Running the command in web2py directory of Web2py version 1.98.2 will result
in the creation of a new pip installable distribution in ./web2py/dist::
./web2py/dist/web2py-1.98.2.tar.gz
Installing via pip
You can then install the new package via pip by running something like the
following::
pip install ./dist/web2py-1.98.2.tar.gz
and you will
Option 2 - Automation
You can create the pypi package from any up to date installation of web2py
manually doing something like this::
cd web2py
make pip
If run from Web2py version 1.98.2 will result in::
./web2py/dist/web2py-1.98.2.tar.gz
BUG as of 2011-08-28
env.tar
env.tar is suppose to be automatically created and copied to the resulting
tar.gz's gluon directory. This is not working at the moment so you will need
to do this manually.
