Hi All, I write a web tool to create AppEngine project. Following is the quick start. Any comment is appreciated. Thanks. :-)
============================================= GAE-Util-Suit Quick Start ============================================= 1. How to access GAE-Util-Suit? The website is http://gaeutilsuit.appspot.com. 2. What is GAE-Util-Suit? GAE-Util-Suit is a web tool. It can be used to create AppEngine project files. The AppEngine developers could choose framework, module and service, then click button. All you need are ready for you. 3. Where is GAE-Util-Suit from? GAE-Util-Suit is inspired by ZipMe of Manatlan (http://is.gd/9AXy). ZipMe is a handy script to download whole AppEngine project files as a ZIP package. 4. How to use GAE-Util-Suit? It's very easy. There are only 4 inputs: * Input the project name. * Choose framework * Choose modules * Choose services At last, click button "Create Project". There should be a ZIP package promoting to download. After downloading and extracting, you could import modules that you've chosen. 5. What are framework, module and service? I've used AppEngine to create some small tools. With my experience, I thought an AppEngine project should be divided into three parts: * At first, you should choose a framework. You could use built-in framework webapp. It's easy. Otherwise, you could use django or other popular web frameworks. * Then, you could choose modules. There are plenty of third party libraries written in Python. They're always helpful when you develop some features. In this area, you could choose modules you want. Every module is in a ZIP file. So, there is no need to worry about 1000-file restriction. * At last, you could choose services. AppEngine provides an Admin Console to help developers to monitor server status, datastore and so on. Obviously, the Admin Console is not good enough. So some other nice guys created some handy tools like ZipMe (http://is.gd/9AXy), appfilesbrowser (http://is.gd/9AY7) and so on. You could add these services into your project quickly. 6. Need contribution? Currently, GAE-Util-Suit is a demo. Just show what the idea is. And I think it could also help the developers who write AppEngine apps. If you find any framework/module/service will help AppEngine development, please tell me. I will integrate them into GAE-Util-Suit. It may help more people. 7. Know issue If you choose django framework, minimum size of the project package is 775KB. And if you've choosen modules or services, it will be bigger. When I download ZIP package from AppEngine, I could always download successfully, but package size is 500KB-600KB. Obviously, the package is broken. This will happen when you have a slow speed connection with AppEngine (My downloading speed is lower than 10KB/s). 8. Contact information My email is tang.jiyu at gmail dot com. (replace at with @ and dot with .) -- Best Regards, TANG Jiyu (Blog: http://jiyu.wordpress.com.cn) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
