I feel this will be a maintenance nightmare unless it somehow upgrades itself. The release process of debian is very slow compared to ours.
On Oct 13, 3:12 pm, Michele Comitini <michele.comit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi José, > > The .deb is badly needed to spread web2py even more! > > Would that be useful for ubuntu also which is probaly the most common > linux distro? > > The packaging must also take into account that a machine could have > different instances of web2py. > It would be a good idea to have some tools in the .deb to support the > creation of different instances, maybe > throughhttp://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenvso that upgrade of > system python doesn't break everything as it usually happens on > debian with other python frameworks. > > mic > > 2010/10/13 José L. <jredr...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi, as it seems that time goes by, and no available packages for > > Debian are ready, I'm going to begin to work on it seriously to upload > > web2py to Debian. > > I know > > (http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/45ea4327d7... > > ) Mark told he was going to work on it, but I think that I have been > > patient enough waiting since April. It's not only Debian is one of the > > most important Linux distribution, also many other distributions as > > Ubuntu are derivatives from Debian, so uploading web2py to Debian will > > bring it to many users in the Linux world. > > > I'd like to have a package similar to the django one. There is a > > python-django package, and I'd like to make a python-web2py package to > > work in a similar way, so people don't need to relearn a new method of > > work. > > I'd like it to work as similar as possible to > >http://codeghar.wordpress.com/2007/12/01/django-in-ubuntu/. > > > So, the main question for me is: > > once gluon is installed in the PYTHONPATH and web2py.py installed in / > > usr/bin, I would like to be able to tell the user: > > execute python web2py.py in any directory and point your browser to > >http://localhost:8000to begin to work. > > > But, as web2py structure is today, I don't know if such thing is > > possible (after adding every needed file to every needed path). > > > If not, what other approaches might be used to make any user in the > > system able to use a system with a installed web2py structure? > > > On the other hand, if more people want to collaborate in the packaging > > I'll be glad to open a project in alioth.debian.org, so we can work > > together. > > > Regards. > > José L. > >
