Plock is a Plone Installer for the Pip-loving Crowd
Project description
plock
Plock is a Plone Installer for the Pip-loving Crowd
Installation
Installing and running Plone with Plock looks like this:
$ pip install plock $ bin/install-plone $ bin/plone fg
Configuration
Plone uses Buildout to manage its installation and configuration. Plock creates a buildout.cfg file for you that (initially) looks like this:
[buildout] extends = https://raw.github.com/pythonpackages/buildout-plone/master/latest
Add-ons
To list available add-ons:
$ bin/install-plone --list-addons
To install add-ons, add the desired Python package name(s) to the command line e.g.:
$ bin/install-plone --install-addons Products.PloneFormGen
Restart Plone and install the add-on(s) in Plone via Site Setup -> Add-ons. After you install add-ons with Plock your buildout.cfg file will look like this:
[buildout]
extends = https://raw.github.com/pythonpackages/buildout-plone/master/latest
[plone]
eggs =
${base:packages}
${version:packages}
Products.PloneFormGen
Why
Why bother building Plock on top of Buildout? Plock is a work around for pip install Plone which works but requires a lengthy requirements.txt, and lacks additional features provided by Buildout that are needed to use pip install Plone effectively.
Pip
Why bother supporting pip? To advance the state of Plone such that Buildout can be used, but not required.
Buildout
Why make Buildout optional? To market Plone to Python Programmers who are generally more familiar with pip than Buildout.
Changelog
0.0.8 (2013-07-25)
- New features:
Added –write-config to write buildout.cfg and exit.
0.0.7 (2013-07-24)
- Bug fixes:
Restore -U
0.0.6 (2013-07-24)
- Bug fixes:
Make sure addons list is sorted.
0.0.5 (2013-07-24)
- New features:
Added –raw, for use with –list-addons e.g. bin/install-plone –list–addons –raw
Added –preserve for use with –install-addons e.g. bin/install-plone –install-addons Products.PloneFormGen –preserve
- Bug fixes:
bin/install-plone with –install-addons PACKAGE(S) can now be run the first time to install both Plone and add-ons.
bin/install-plone –install-addons PACKAGE(S) saves a copy of buildout.cfg and reverts changes if a Buildout run fails.
0.0.4 (2013-07-23)
Provide updated add-on installation instructions
Install add-ons with bin/install-plone –install-addons PACKAGE(S)
0.0.3 (2013-07-22)
List add-ons with bin/install-plone –list-addons
0.0.2 (2013-07-19)
Provide add-on installation instructions
Write local buildout.cfg instead of relying on -c remote_cfg.cfg
0.0.1 (2013-07-15)
Initial release
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