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0 pointswikibob7y ago0 comments

Hi, I couldn't agree more with the parent comment about the AppEngine docs. I built a fairly small app and it was utterly excruciating to sort out the nuances.

There should be right up front, a crystal clear page detailing the three possible environments.

- Legacy Standard (WITH A VERY CLEAR DEPRECATION NOTICE)

- Legacy Flexible (WITH A VERY CLEAR DEPRECATION NOTICE)

- Standard Second Generation GVisor

For example, in Python Standard (old standard), it's extremely confusing to work out which gcloud libraries are bundled, and which need to be vendored and packaged into the app (yes I know there is a page that tries to explain. It's unclear).

Thank you for working on the documentation. It is the number one area that GCP needs to invest in. All the technology is miles ahead of AWS in the core areas. The docs however, are very very far behind.

Happy to elaborate more if there's any specifics you need.

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nulbyte7y ago

> For example, in Python Standard (old standard), it's extremely confusing to work out which gcloud libraries are bundled, and which need to be vendored

I agree. I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out myself with various APIs, and in some instances, I gave up and looked for an alternative after I failed to figure out how to correctly vendor some Google Cloud libs (even following what documentation I did find, which made it look so simple).

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