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Odoo Development Cookbook

By : Holger Brunn, Alexandre Fayolle, Daniel Reis
Book Image

Odoo Development Cookbook

By: Holger Brunn, Alexandre Fayolle, Daniel Reis

Overview of this book

Odoo is a full-featured open source ERP with a focus on extensibility. The flexibility and sustainability of open source is also a key selling point of Odoo. It is built on a powerful framework for rapid application development, both for back-end applications and front-end websites. The book starts by covering Odoo installation and administration, and provides a gentle introduction to application development. It then dives deep into several of the areas that an experienced developer will need to use. You’ll learn implement business logic, adapt the UI, and extend existing features.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Odoo Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Standardizing your instance directory layout


We recommend that your development and production environments all use a similar directory layout. This standardization will prove helpful when you have to perform maintenance operations, and it will also ease your day to day work.

This recipe creates a directory structure that groups files having similar life cycles or similar purpose together in standardized subdirectories. Feel free to alter this structure to suit your needs, but be sure to have this documented somewhere.

How to do it…

To create the proposed instance layout, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Create one directory per instance:

    $ mkdir ~/odoo-dev/projectname
    $ cd ~/odoo-dev/projectname
    
  2. Create a Python virtualenv in a subdirectory called env/:

    $ virtualenv env
    
  3. Create some subdirectories, as follows:

    $ mkdir src local bin filestore logs
    

    The functions of the subdirectories are as follows:

    • src/: This contains the clone of Odoo itself and of the various third-party addons projects...