- I have been reading a lot of Plone blogs lately and they have inspired me to write my own.
- I want to interact with other Plonistas.
- I want to get my web 2.0 ON.
To that end, this post is about my build tools (located here http://svn.aclark.net/svn/newzope/trunk/
please don’t laugh and how I love them.
Note: there are much better ways to accomplish what I do with these scripts. I’m reminding myself this as much as the reader. So why do I continue to use them? Good question! I’ll save the answer to that for another post but for now just know there are better ways. Most notably:
and:
I used ploneout for the first time at the Baarn UI Sprint 2007 and really enjoyed it. I have also used and enjoyed Chris McDonough’s buildit. That may be where I end up (and there are several more to choose from) but for now I still enjoy typing:
newzope test-site ProductA ProductB ProductC
and having a working instance a few seconds later (with Product[A,B,C] installed)! Of course this requires I have a working Zope already… and that I edit Zope’s skel/etc/zope.conf… but hey nothing is perfect and old habits die hard.
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