Do I have to copy my configuration file and/or database when I deploy my TurboGears application as an egg?
From TurboGears version 1.0.4b3 onwards it is easy to include a default configuration file in your application’s egg file, which then will be found by the standard start script automatically. You just have to uncomment a section in your project’s setup.py file, which is appropriatly commented. Older projects can be updated to use this technique by following the instructions on the Upgrade page. While, in principle, one could also include a default database in the egg, this would only make sense for single-file databases, like those used by SQLite, but then again, one wouldn’t normally want to write to files contained in an egg. One solution is to provide a custom tg-admin command for your application, that asks the user for the database connection parameters and then initializes the database using the tg-admin sql create command followed by some custom code to fill the the dadabase with some bootstrap data.
