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:
$ virtualenv-2.7 . $ source bin/activate
$ pip install plock $ plock
$ 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 = release.cfg
release.cfg extends several other configuration files in the current working directory.
Add-ons
To list available add-ons:
$ plock --list-addons
To install add-ons, add the desired Python package name(s) to the command line e.g.:
$ plock --add-on 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 = release.cfg
[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
0.1.0 (2013-07-28)
- Make “secure”
All Buildout configuration files (for Plone, Zope2, the ZTK, etc.) are included in plock; this eliminates the possibility of a MITM-attack via remote extends (now you just need to trust PyPI and dist.plone.org.)
- Changed features:
Renamed script: install-plone to plock.
Renamed arg: --install-addons to ---add-on (to improve argparse-provided usage statement).
0.0.9 (2013-07-25)
- Bug fixes:
Don’t print “Wrote buildout.cfg” if buildout.cfg exists.
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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