Including everything is bloat. Making implementing a distribution system is an overkill. The first thing we could do, however is introduce a way for the apps to signal the framework what modules do they need (esp with regard to versions). Sometimes just a note in the admin about these dependencies would be helpful and make it easier to avoid trial-and-error installs of applications with a lot of dependancies.
Another issue, somewhat linked to this is the version of web2py itself. Is there a way for the app to detect that the web2py version it is run on is older than it requires ? On Mar 3, 9:51 am, Jonathan B <jonathan.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm with Massimo and Yarko on this one. > > A big part of what makes web2py great is the fact that you can just > download it and run it, with no dependencies. This was the #1 feature > that got me to use web2py. I took a look at Django and saw how much > effort it would be to set it up on my home computer (which uses > Windows). Instead, I downloaded web2py and ran it, and it worked. It > was an easy decision. > > Every dependancy we add to web2py makes this feature harder to > maintain. Any platform-dependant (i.e. not pure Python) dependancy > puts this feature at serious risk. > > I don't think it's very onerous to expect the app developer to find > and include all of the additional dependencies in their package. (1) > They need to find the dependencies anyway to do their development > work, (2) they know which platforms they're targeting, which may be a > small subset of all of the platforms supported by web2py. > > As a community, we can help out in our FAQ and help documentation by > listing all of the common external packages, and how to find them and > package them with web2py. > > --Jonathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
