The fact is, you can already do very much everything form the shell: create an app
cd application mkdir myapp cp -r welcome/* myapp delete an app rm -r applications copy a plugin cd ~/web2py ccpcplugin.py plugin_name app_source app_target install a remote app or remote plugin cd applications/myapp tar zxvf path/to/web2py.app.name.w2p etc. etc. The web2py/gluon/admin.py has API to access equivalent functionalities programmatically. I am not sure what else is needed. Can you give me an example? Massimo On Jul 6, 11:36 am, "(m)" <mithatko...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am wondering if this discussion ended up going anywhere. As a newbie > webapp developer (but not a newbie programmer), the only thing I might add > to what blackthorne has already said is that I'm finding it easier to > understand what's going on and what's where by interacting with my > filesystem and writing stuff in a conventional IDE. (Alternately, the Web > interface could be redesigned to be more IDE-ish ... but that's another > discussion.) If I could do all the project management stuff from the command > line (or commands I weld into my IDE) I would.