Has the Google App Engine Launcher for MAC OSX been deprecated?

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Sorry if this is off topic. If it is, please let me know where to post. I don't see a GAE site on SE. I can't update my Google App Engine Launcher. All the new install documentation I have found omits anything about it. I have version 1.9.37.

There is no .dmg file or .app file in the current GAE SDK downloads. I can't find a separate download either. I have not been able to find a statement by Google in any release notes or bug reports, etc. So again the question is:

Has the Google App Engine Launcher for MAC OSX been deprecated?

Thanks!

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There is a posting on this in the Google forum as well. groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/kwFcjqE3qC4 If anything comes of that I'll post that here. Thanks. - JackW327
I would really recommend not using that (we're cleaning up the docs). Most of our energy here is spent on the Cloud SDK - Justin Beckwith
Thanks for the reply. That's helpful! - JackW327
I've been using the GAE Launcher for years... and it's silently deprecated... well, I am not surprised. - Jonny

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For anyone looking: you can still download it here !!

This is a godsend. Honestly dev_appserver.py is easy to work with (just run dev_appserver.py . in your app top level directory then browse to localhost:8080)

To deploy it was a mess: you need appcfg.py, which I couldn't find anywhere. I tried to install from the gcloud things but their install script didn't work for me. And then I found the old app. Working great!

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As @Thomas mentioned in his reply, for a time, there was still the ability to download the App (from an old link) and use it. Starting from November (or December 2020), deploying via the old GAE Launcher is no longer supported because Google has shifted to using Cloud Build for deployment and the appcfg.py update app.yaml command did not use that.

We have created a replacement for GAE Launcher. You can find it on https://nocommandline.com. Simply put, it is a GUI for GAE and offers same functionality (with some improvements) as the old GAE Launcher