An Alternative Introduction to Media Goblin
Table of Contents
1 Run it ASAP
Media Goblin uses git submodules. If you do not know what these are, read this.
Run bootstrap.sh. This sets up the Autotools and ensure that the git submodules
are checked out.
2 How does it work.
When you run lazyserver.sh you make PasteScript setup the app for you.
As
3 Appendix A: File Listing
3.1 setup.py
This script is envoked by make. It calls setuptools.setup to create the python egg file.
Why does it need to do this?
4 Appendix B: What are all of these packages for?
4.1 Sphinx
This is for documentation. Anything at readthedocs is generated from the docs directory using sphinx. The source format is .rst (restructured text)
4.2 six
Helps with the old Python2 - Python3 transition.
4.3 Werkzeug
WSGI helpers
5 Appendix C: Bugs
Creating collections "Budapest" and "budapest" leads to problems.
6 Appendix D: Questions
Why create the egg? What exactly does celery do?