Nice. perhaps we could by-pass shelve and provide out own
implementation based on sqlite. Actually I have this coded already...
pros, cons?

On Jan 15, 4:28 am, Nik Klever <[email protected]> wrote:
> web2py runs on Android - I've tested it with my Motorola Defy. The only
> problems, I discovered until now concerns the cache:
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> 1. gluon/cache.py uses the python standard library shelve. And shelve on
> Android uses dumbdbm instead of anydbm as normally on unix systems, this
> leads to problems in creating new database files for caching - in web2py
> therefor in creating applications. I solved this with a short workaround
> of cache.py (see attachment) and a default cache-archive (see
> attachment). This is still a workaround, because this problem should be
> solved by shelve in the standard library and not by web2py !
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> The attachments can be found on my 
> server:http://klever.hs-augsburg.de/Veranstaltungen/page/informationen#web2p...
>
> 2. additionally cache problems on Android is caused by the disk cache
> functionality - I haven't looked into this problem in detail, because
> web2py works also without disk caching and the normal use-case for
> web2py on Android is for single-users - it does not makes any sense to
> use it as a server for more than one user !
>
> Greetings,
> Nik
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> > I did not try but I think yes because it does not use any additional
> > libraries.
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> > On Jan 14, 6:50 am, Phyo Arkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I cant wait to run Web2py on my android 8 inches and 10 inches tablets and
> > > develop inside there.
> > > But i see this tutorial : Cherrypy on Android!
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> > > Can we hack rocket to run on android and then we should be able to run
> > > web2py on 
> > > there!http://www.defuze.org/archives/228-running-cherrypy-on-android-with-s...
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> > > Anyone up for that?
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> > > Thanks
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> > > Phyo.
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