OK, while how to move forward is being worked out, I thought I'd provide a clear answer for anyone using the mercurial repo who can't get create app to work.
Problem: You have cloned the mercurial repository and cannot create a new app from site admin. Error message: Unable to create application "your app name" Cause: Application creation looks for a file called welcome.w2p in the top- level web2py/ directory. This file is not included in the mercurial repository. Current Solution: The Easy Way: 1) From the site admin screen, "clean" the Welcome app (to get rid of any unnecessary session, cache, etc files that may be there) 2) From the site admin screen, click the "pack all" link under the Welcome app 3) Your browser will download a file called "web2py.app.welcome.w2p" save this file to your top-level web2py/ folder as "welcome.w2p" 4) Create your new application from the site admin screen. The Harder Way 1) From the site admin screen, clean the welcome app (to get rid of any unnecessary session, cache, etc files that may be there) 2) Create a tar.gz file of the *contents* of the applications/welcome folder and call it welcome.w2p Note that you don't want the "welcome" folder itself to be included in the tar.gz file - you just want the sub-folders (cache/, controllers/, cron/, databases/, ..., views/, __init__.py). 3) Place the welcome.w2p file you just created in the top-level web2py folder 4) Create your new application from the site admin screen. Hope this helps someone. ~Brian On Dec 7, 8:11 pm, Thadeus Burgess <thade...@thadeusb.com> wrote: > the .w2p files are no longer included, but version-ed directories of > the examples and welcome apps are. > > The consensus was that you would create a new app instead of using the > welcome app to make modifications. > > -Thadeus > > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:55 PM, mr.freeze <nat...@freezable.com> wrote: > > I've switched from svn tomercurial(SubClipse to MercurialEclipse) > > and most everything seems to be working. One question though: Where > > is welcome.w2p now? Creating a new app fails because it is missing. I > > don't see an hgignore file anywhere so I don't think it is getting > > excluded. Has it been removed from source control? > > > Thanks for any help and sorry if this was already discussed, google > > groups search is abysmal. > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "web2py-users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to web...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
