Python & OpenERP development environment setup howto?

Question

I downloaded Open ERP server & web, having decided against the thicker gtk. I added the 2 as projects in eclipse, pydev running on Ubuntu 11.10 and started then up. I we

Answer 1

I feel your pain. I went through the same process a couple of years ago when I started working with OpenERP. The good news is that it's not too hard to set up, and OpenERP runs smoothly in Eclipse with PyDev.

Start by looking at the developer book for OpenERP. They lay out most of the requirements for getting it running.

To try and answer your specific questions, you shouldn't need to run the setup.py script at all in your development environment. It's only necessary when you deploy to a server. To get the server to recognize a new module, go to the administration menu, and choose Modules Management: Update Modules List. I'm still running OpenERP 5.0, so the names and locations might be slightly different in version 6.1.

For the project configuration in Eclipse, I just checked out each branch from launchpad, and then imported each one as a project into my Eclipse workspace. The launch details are a bit different between 6.0 and 6.1. Here are my command line arguments for each:

6.0:

--addons-path ${workspace_loc:openerp-addons-6.0} --config ${workspace_loc:openerp-config/src/server.config} --xmlrpc-port=9069 --netrpc-port=9070 --xmlrpcs-port=9071

6.1 needs the web client to launch with the server:

--addons-path ${workspace_loc:openerp-addons-trunk},${workspace_loc:openerp-web-trunk}/addons,${workspace_loc:openerp-migration} --config ${workspace_loc:openerp-config/src/server.config} --xmlrpc-port=9069 --netrpc-port=9070 --xmlrpcs-port=9071