Could Satchmo run on Google App Engine?

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walterbyrd

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Nov 9, 2010, 10:31:53 AM11/9/10

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My guess is: it could, but would take a lot re-writing, and would not
be very practical.

Brian O'Connor

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Nov 9, 2010, 10:59:30 AM11/9/10

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So I did some research on the topic, and I'll share what I learned.

With the django-nonrel app getting better, it looks like a lot of satchmo itself wouldn't need rewriting, but the dependencies probably wouldn't work right out of the box. If you weren't going to use django-nonrel, then any model related code (it's obviously a lot) needs to be completely rewritten. I started doing some of it, then I just gave up because it didn't really make sense.

I'm partially speculating here because I don't know all the rules, but I don't think the app engine is PCI compliant. That being said, you could still use paypal/google checkout.

After all is said and done though, I don't think there's anyway to get around the reportlab dependency, and you'd probably have to write something to use google's image library, which I don't think would be anything short of a real pain.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:31 AM, walterbyrd <walte...@iname.com> wrote:

My guess is: it could, but would take a lot re-writing, and would not
be very practical.

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