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 ensure that you 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 -p python3 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 addon...