wrt “off topic” As I have stated before, when I start working on a new project I always try to understand what is the developers' primary development environment and use the same or similar. This avoids too much bleeding especially for bleeding edge technologies. So I never used GAE on windows.
My first apengine environment was on a windows notebook but the notebook was hosting a VM with the GAE SDK/editor etc. So it was really Linux. Having two windows systems on one machine is a pain so I started thinking what to do. Native development on bare metal Linux was not an option for a number of reasons but I had started seeing a lot of people with MacBooks. So, three years ago I made the decision and switched to a Mac. I liked the GUI, the multiple spaces---that allowed to visually contain different projects and personal work—etc. I also liked that there is UNIX underneath, I can always open a terminal window and ssh anywhere etc. At that time I figured out how to set up the SDK to run natively on the mac and have been living happily since then. I wrote about that here: http://www.gae123.com/articles/dpwf/#idp140641236359312 Using virtualenv was a key insight at the time. For the past week I spent a lot of time—definitely much more than I had allotted to— to figure out how to run the SDK and my app engine dev environment on docker. My primary motivation has been that I want to upgrade to the latest MacOS 10.10 doing a clean install. However, I have been concerned that the native maces dev. environment will stop working and the last thing I want is to have to weather a production crisis with an unstable dev. environment. I think I have accomplished my goal but I will need one more week to make sure I have not missed anything. I will do a write-up when I feel comfortable with the new approach. PK http://www.gae123.com On November 6, 2014 at 3:41:35 PM, Kaan Soral (kaanso...@gmail.com) wrote: Off topic, if there is anyone around thinking of making the switch, the sqlite datastore seems to be compatible with mac os, the blobstore is compatible, the only issue seems to be this, for a direct switch macports > py27-lxml + py27-pil + using the python2.7 of macports solves the dev_appserver requirements Generally speaking, I wouldn't suggest switching to mac for no reason, I switched because I wasn't able to easily move my win7 setup to a new hardware, and my laptop was glitching for years, mac os's time machine / easy restore features sounded great for future hardware issues So far I've been spending my time trying to select a new IDE / trying to solve font/svn issues - retina screens are great, however regular external lcd's render fonts really bad, so a 4K screen halved into retina resolution might be a must for those who are obsessed with IDE fonts, long story short, it's cost after cost after disappointment after cost ... but I'm hoping it's probably going to pay off in the near future -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
