Re: New install add-ons tutorial needs your love

On 9/3/11 10:03 AM, Mikko Ohtamaa wrote:
> Hey D,
>
>> There are a number of add-ons that provide good-py KGS's to make sure that
>> the correct versions of dependencies are included. We probably should
>> explain what these are and how to use them.
> I think it's the responsible of the add-on author to have the primary
> installation instructions and  explain the usage of KGS.
Perhaps, although I think it would be good for the tutorial to at least 
say something like "a number of add-ons use this method; be sure to 
check the specific instructions"
> Also I think we should probably teach people how to pin the result of their
> build (using buildout.dumppickedversions) to make sure it's safe to run in
> the future.
> I think buildout must be fixed so that it would do it by itself. This
> is something computers should do for us, not we doing it for
> computers.
>
Hmm, I'm not sure how to make it more automatic. You don't want to 
record the versions until you know they work, and you don't know that 
until you've started up Zope and/or run tests.

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