porting existing python codebase to windmill

[danielmklein]

I have an existing (non-trivial, but not terribly complicated) python codebase that I'd like to try "porting" to run on Windmill, and I'm trying to understand the best approach for this.

This codebase already has some of its own modules (and thus eg imports of local modules). As a simple representative example, suppose...

• our entrypoint script is src/main.py
• we have MyCoolAgent defined in src/agents/my_cool_agent.py
• src/main.py contains from agents.my_cool_agent import MyCoolAgent

Based on my reading of docs etc so far, the "Windmill-y" way to port this (let's call this Option A) would be to move/rename modules to fit into Windmill's f/... formatting and correspondingly update all import statements and whatnot. I think I understand how to do this, but it would introduce some disruption to the workflow of the people who work on this codebase (and dev and test it locally).

Another option I see for "porting" this (let's call it Option B) is to just build a container image and run this in windmill that way. This would not require many/any code changes, but would obviously not allow us to take advantage of as many of the cool features of the windmill platform.

Am I missing any potential options here, or am I misunderstanding either of the options?

[rubenfiszel]

I would recommend exploring building your codebase as a wheel that you publish to a registry, maybe pypi and using it in Windmill as a normal library import.

For typescript we have bundles but there are no canonical way to do bundles in python so we do not support.

But otherwise, yes A is the better one if you can do it. You can use any nesting level so the f/... restriction is not a big one.

[danielmklein]

@rubenfiszel In this same vein, I don't suppose there's a way to ignore/map local directory paths to Windmill's f/myfolder/etc structure using wmill.yaml, is there?

ie I'd love to have code in src/myproject locally but map that to f/somethingelse in windmill when doing wmill sync operations. I don't see this in the docs but figured it's worth asking!