Buildout

Description

Buildout is a tool used to make site configuration repeatable and automatic. It will download and configure software for you.

• Introduction
  • More buildout documentation and background
• Packages, products and eggs
  • Terminology
  • The magic Products namespace
• Prerequisites
  • Additional installation steps for Windows
• Creating a buildout for your project
  • Directories in the buildout
• Understanding buildout.cfg
  • The main [buildout] section
  • The extends and versions lines
  • The [zope2] section
  • The [productdistros] section
  • The [instance] section
  • The [zopepy] section
• Creating a buildout defaults file
• Installing a third party product
  • Installing eggs
  • Installing a traditional Zope 2 product
  • Managing ZCML files
  • Policy products
• Creating a new package
  • Creating a traditional Zope 2 product
  • Creating an egg
  • Creating development releases
• A deployment configuration
  • Further options
• Useful buildout recipes
• Installing products from Subversion
  • Step by step
  • Further information
  • Certification errors and passwords
• Converting single process Zope instance to ZEO cluster buildout.cfg
  • Introduction
  • Steps
  • Starting ZEO cluster
  • Other resources
• Additional information
  • Recipes
  • Making buildout faster
  • Buildout folder structure
  • Running buildout on Windows
  • Running buildout behind a proxy
  • Buildout cache folder
  • Manually picking downloaded and active component versions
  • Migrating buildout to a different Python interpreter
  • Setting up a Plone site from buildout.cfg and Data.fs
  • Configuring plone products from buildout
  • Setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  • Extending buildout section
  • Overriding parts variables from command line
  • Troubleshooting