buildout.bootstrap 1.1

Introduction

buildout.bootstrap (formerly collective.recipe.bootstrap) is a zc.buildout extension that adds a (zc.buildout) bootstrap.py file to your buildout.

It satisfies the use case of:

"I want to keep my buildout's bootstrap.py file up to date without having to manually download it from svn.zope.org."

It also makes it possible (and easy) to add a bootstrap.py file to a buildout created via the command: buildout init.

If at this point you still don’t understand, consider the following. With this extension you can avoid having to type:

$ wget http://svn.zope.org/repos/main/zc.buildout/trunk/bootstrap/bootstrap.py

You mostly use this when you have initialized a new buildout (e.g. with buildout init) and you want to:

• Check in the buildout to a version control system

• Check out the buildout elsewhere and bootstrap it

See docs/INSTALL.txt for installation instructions.

Installation

To use extension, just add buildout.bootstrap to the [buildout] section of your buildout.cfg:

[buildout]
extensions =
    ...
    buildout.bootstrap

Now whenever you run Buildout this extension will add or update your buildout’s bootstrap.py file, leaving you free to do other more important things: like write, test, and deploy your code!

Changes

Contributors

Alex Clark, author

[aclark]