$ cd /opt/environments
$ mkdir my-gae
$ virtualenv my-gae
New python executable in my-gae/bin/python
Installing distribute....done.
Installing pip....done.
$ cd my-gae
$ unzip ~/Downloads/google_appengine_1.7.7.zip
$ mv google_appengine google_appengine_1.7.7
$ ln -s google_appengine_1.7.7 gae
You should be left with something like this:
├── bin
├── gae -> google_appengine-1.7.7
├── google_appengine-1.7.7
├── include
├── lib
└── local
This will allow us to update our GAE SDK version without much hassle. Now let's configure the SDK for our new virtualenv. First, edit the file "bin/activate" to look like this:
PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin:$PATH"
PATH="$VIRTUAL_ENV/gae:$PATH" # New line for GAE
export PATH
Next time you run "source bin/activate" that line will add the SDK dev_appserver.py executable to our path.
Finally, we need to add our path configuration for the GAE path. Create a new file lib/python2.7/site-packages/gae.pth with the following:
$ cat lib/python2.7/site-packages/gae.pth
/opt/environments/my-gae/gae
import dev_appserver; dev_appserver.fix_sys_path()
Let's see if everything works.
$ cd /opt/environments/my-gae
$ source bin/activate
(my-gae)
$ dev_appserver.py
usage: dev_appserver.py [-h] [--host HOST] [--port PORT]
[--admin_host ADMIN_HOST] [--admin_port ADMIN_PORT]
...
dev_appserver.py: error: too few arguments
(my-gae)
$ python -c "from google import appengine"
(my-gae)
We're done with the GAE SDK, now let's go with Flask, which is a bit of a pain, specially Flask-Babel. The easiest thing to do is to use one of the already set up projects like flask-appengine-template or http://gae-init.appspot.com/ which include everything you need.
