Re: Please Review: Choose the Right Paster Template

This is a reply to both Veda and Christopher. I'm sending it to the 
whole list, so I can get feedback from everyone. Please help me get this 
right. :)

Veda Williams wrote:
> It looks pretty good to me. Just a few comments.
>
> You should probably state what the preferred templates are (e.g.
> plone3_theme, not plone2_theme). Perhaps mentioning that the paster 
> recipes
> are tied to a version of Plone is also useful?
>
> I think it's worth stating that the list of available paster recipes could
> change at any minute if someone adds a new one (I was contemplating doing
> this yesterday).
Sure, I can add those comments easily.
>
> I'd also like to know where to go if you want to create your own recipe.
> And, are there any guidelines on who can release a recipe or how it can be
> included in the next version of PasteScript, in the event someone wants to
> write their own?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Veda
Veda, you ask a great question there. I have no idea what the answer is.

Warner, Christopher wrote:
> Hey John,
>
> You don't think you need a little more explanation on the differences like
> why you want to use lets say a archetype template instead of a regular plone
> program template?
>   
Sure, if I knew what the differences were. But even after 9 months in 
Plone, I still don't.
> Technically if you don't know why you would use one or the other it's just a
> printing of the trees.
Bingo! In my case, I knew I needed something with "profiles/default" in 
it, so I could set some properties. The question I needed to answer was, 
"Which paster template has this?"

Sure, I agree that it's better to actually /understand/ what template 
you need. However, there are times that this is just too high a wall to 
climb. Consider this How-To on the same level as "grep the codebase."

Any more thoughts?
John

PS-I have found that the paster templates create incomplete "things". 
IMHO, stuff that comes out of /paster create/ should be ready to install 
in Plone, without any customization. That would give the user a 
baseline, from which to experiment. But that's probably a rant for a 
different list... ;)

Warner, Christopher wrote:
> Hey John,
>
> You don't think you need a little more explanation on the differences like
> why you want to use lets say a archetype template instead of a regular plone
> program template?
>
> Technically if you don't know why you would use one or the other it's just a
> printing of the trees.
>
> -C
>
>
> On 3/11/09 3:24 PM, "John Samuel Anderson" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>   
>> http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/choose-the-right-paster-template
>> Thanks,
>> JSA
>> sixstring on #plone
>>
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