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lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Advice on packaging a Flask web application for the AUR

I have a Flask-based web application (http://github.com/alandmoore/omega-hymnal) that I'd like to package for the AUR; I have a few questions about the best way to do this:

- Flask has its own built-in http server for testing, but it should really be run behind something else, like Apache mod_wsgi, Nginx, etc.   What's the accepted way to handle this?  Should I require a server of some kind, or leave it out and let the user decide how to configure the service?

- The application uses a sqlite database on the backend.  Where's the accepted place to put this in the filesystem?  /var/lib/<program-name>/?  (Reading the FHS, I always thought /srv/ was the right place, but I never see services using this directory).

Thanks for any advice.

aboe

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2006-10-23

Posts: 19

Re: Advice on packaging a Flask web application for the AUR

What about: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/We … guidelines

is this what you are looking for?

lykwydchykyn

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Registered: 2013-07-11

Posts: 91

Re: Advice on packaging a Flask web application for the AUR

Thanks.  That answers the filesystem question, but I'm not sure if I should include an http server as a dependency.

nullified

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From: Massachusetts, USA

Registered: 2013-12-09

Posts: 468

Re: Advice on packaging a Flask web application for the AUR

I'm going to guess that you shouldn't. If a choice can be made by a user, then the choice should be left to the user. Maybe you can add the recommended server as an optional dependency? I believe if you do that you'll have the option to add in parentheses that it is the recommended http server, and so on.

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