This is really quite neat. I hope we can look forward to seeing more modules to choose from in the future! You could work around the 1MB limit by providing a command-line tool that takes the same settings as the site and downloads the components separately. At the 'lots of work' end of the scale, you could even provide a virtual Git or SVN repository that people can pull/clone/ fork to start their project off!
-Nick On Dec 3, 5:45 am, A.TNG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ishttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
