Why? Because I can (read: there are Plone Products that allow me to do so) but also:

  • 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.

Alex Clark: First Post

Originally from Planet Plone by Alex Clark