Introduction

pysmvt is a wsgi web framework library designed in the spirit of Pylons but with Django modularity (i.e. what they would call “apps”). If you want to try it out it would be best to start with our example application.

Steps for Installation

1. Install Python

2. install setuptools (includes easy_install)

3. install virtualenv easy_install virtualenv

4. Create a new virtual environement virtualenv myproj-staging –no-site-packages

5. Activate the virtual environment (os dependent)

6. install pysmvt & dependencies easy_install pysmvt

Steps for creating a working application

1. cd myproj-staging

2. mkdir src

3. cd src

4. pysmvt project myapp

5. answer the questions that come up. Note what you put for

   “Enter author (your name)” as <user>. If you forget, look in myapp/settings.py.

6. cd myapp-dist

7. python setup.py -q develop

8. nosetests you should get three succesful tests

9. cd myapp

10. pysmvt serve <user> run a development http server with the user’s settings profile

11. point your browser at http://localhost:5000/

Creating a New Application Module

This step creates a Application Module directory structure in myapp/modules/<mymod>:

pysmvt module <mymod>

where <mymod> is the name of the module you want to create

Questions & Comments

Please visit: http://groups.google.com/group/pyslibs

Current Status

The code for 0.1 is pretty stable. API, however, will be changing in 0.2.

The unstable development version.