Re: is "Installing a Plone buildout on Ubuntu" a useful how-to?

I applaud your effort, but I would much prefer to see the energy spent on
plone installation docs be shepherded around general resources, rather than
distro-specific documents.

Regardless of whether we're talking about the universal installer, or a raw
from-scratch buildout, there are little to no distro-specific details
involved.

If there were separate how-to's for ubuntu, gentoo, debian, fedore, suse,
centos, etc..  they would be 99% identical, save for the very first step of
a buildout how-to which might describe getting python and virtualenv
installed via a native package manager, just so you could get the buildout
sandbox started.  After that, your distro is fairly moot.

- to serve as a place to keep track of tricks people use to get/keep their
> buildouts working, as these are now scattered over various blog posts
>

That in particular is a category of collective wisdom that I think would be
much better served in a general document than in something
distro-specific.   Unless you mean that there are literally Ubuntu-specific
things that influence buildout frequently enough that it merits its own
document.  But that seems unlikely.


regards,

-David



On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 08:21, Kees Hink <hink-JZa/QnC6/[email protected]> wrote:

> For some time now, I've been keeping track (in a blog post) of the steps
> required to install a Plone buildout on Ubuntu. I'm wondering if there
> might be
> enough value in it to add is a a how-to on plone.org. I've added the
> how-to on
> http://plone.org/documentation/kb/installing-a-plone-buildout-on-ubuntu
>
> It might be useful:
> - for people who are considering to install Plone on a Debian/Ubuntu
> server;
> - in the situation where a Unified Installer is not yet available;
> - to serve as a place to keep track of tricks people use to get/keep their
> buildouts working, as these are now scattered over various blog posts
>
> Ultimately, i'd like to share the document with other Ubuntu-using Plone
> devs,
> and make it apply to other Linux distributions as well.
>
> On the other hand, maybe there's no use for yet another how-to-install on
> plone.org. In this case, I'll just keep it on as a blog post, and whoever
> knows
> Google will find it.
>
> Kees
>
>
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