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 object in a subdirectory called env/:

   $ python3 -m venv 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, as well as the various third-party add-on projects (we have added Odoo source code to the next step in this recipe).
   • local/: This is used to save your instance-specific add-ons.
   • bin/: This includes various helper executable shell scripts.
   • filestore/: This is used as a file store.
   • logs/ (optional): This is used to store the server log files.
4. Clone Odoo and install the requirements (refer to Chapter 1, Installing the Odoo Development Environment, for details on this):

   $ git clone -b 14.0 --single-branch --depth 1 https://github...