[yocto] Web frameworks on embedded linux

[Maciek Borzecki]

On czw, 2014-11-13 at 23:12 -0800, Edward Wingate wrote:
> I've been trying to get an existing python flask application running
> on an embedded linux distro (Poky).  The web app was originally
> deployed on a Debian distro.  I need to move the application to a less
> heftier board and wanted to try a distro created by Yocto, rather than
> try to pare down Debian.
> 
> I've been following the chain of dependencies for the web application
> and adding them to Yocto to try and get the app to work (nginx, uwsgi,
> python, pyserial, etc.), and hit a bump - Python's built-in logging
> and codecs modules are not provided by Yocto.  Maybe I can add them
> myself, or maybe I'll rip them out of the application, but I wanted to
> take a step back and see if maybe Python/Flask is not the best app
> framework to use in an embedded linux distro.  
Have you installed python-modules pacakge? This package pulls in all
standard python modules as dependencies.

I've used Tornado to provide a REST-ful API for an Android application
and some basic web pages with status information and so on. Worked quite
well.



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