Packaging a django application

[Raffael Mancini <raffael@mancini.lu>]

Hello,
 
I'm trying to deploy a django application on guix system using nginx as a reverse proxy and gunicorn as wsgi server. I have written the prototype of a gunicorn service based on the already packaged gunicorn by extending the shepherd-service-type. This new service seems to work to some extent and I will hopefully be able to submit it as a patch once it's ready. The end goal is a simple extensible django-application-service-type that you could extend in order to easily deploy any kind of django application.
 
In order to serve my django application, would the best approach be to just create a regular guix package for it and reference it in the gunicorn configuration? What's a good method to translate a very long requirements.txt file to a guix package? Is there anyone who has done this already? How would you deal with the read/write part of the application like uploads or a sqlite3 database since the store items are read-only?
 
I was also wondering if it's possible to somehow specify the guix profile used in the execution of gunicorn and "abuse" is as a pip replacement. I could thus iteratively create a profile with the needed dependencies to run my application and then configure the gunicorn daemon to use it.
 
Thanks for any input on this!
 
Raffael