Odoo 12 Development Essentials - Fourth Edition

Creating the module directory and manifest

At this point, we should have the ~/odoo-dev/custom-addons directory prepared to receive our Odoo modules, and properly added to the addons path, so that the Odoo server will be able to find them.

Odoo includes a scaffold command to automatically create a new module directory, with a basic structure already in place. We won't use it here, as we will manually create our module structure. You can learn more about it with the following command:

$ ~/odoo-dev/odoo/odoo-bin scaffold --help

An Odoo addon module is a directory that contains a __manifest__.py descriptor file. It also needs to be Python importable, so it must also have a __init__.py file.

In previous versions, this descriptor file was named ...