GAP

Google App Engine is excellent technology but there is a gap.

If you are missing

• use of pip with Google App Engine,
• cooperation of appengine and virtualenv,
• possibility to add any module to your python path,

then this barebone could be at least an inspiration for you.

How to use (fill) the gap?

Short version

> workon <myvirtualenv>
> pip install gap
> gap start-project <applicationid>
> cd <applicationid>
> appcfg update src

Long version

1. Install Google Appengine SDK
2. Create a virtualenv for you project
3. if necessary easy_install pip
4. run pip install gap
5. Go to directory where you want to create your GAE project.
6. run gap start-project <projectname> # <projectname> will be used as applicationId
7. Add your dependencies to requirements.gip (format is the same as pip requirements file) and run bin/gip install -r requirements.gip
8. or install any packages using bin/gip same way as you are used to do it with pip.
9. To create a new module in your application run gap start-app <module_name>
10. Libraries installed using gip are accessible in dev_server as well as on GAE servers.

See Gap documentation on github for more informations.

Any ideas, thoughts, fixes (specially corrections of my English :) are welcome!

Disclaimer

Of course ... This code is published in hope that someone will find it useful but it is provided as-is and I can take no responsibility for improper as well as proper use.

See also

Enhance GAP with plugins and addons:

• GAP Resources
• GAP Angular
• GAP Datastore Admin