Re: Unified Installer with Buildout

Steve McMahon wrote:
> An experimental version of the Unified Installer Plus Buildout is 
> available for testing at:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/plone/3.0/3.0.4/+download/Plone-3.0.4-UnifiedInstallerBuildout-a1.tar.gz

This is really, really great work. Am I right in thinking this takes 
care of Linux, Unix and OS X, or do we still need a separate OS X installer?

I know Sidnei was looking into a Windows version of this too. I think 
this'd go a long way towards unifying our installation experience and 
making it easier for people to manage egg-based packages.

I'm just trying it now on my MacBook (ZEO install, non-root).

Unfortunately, that ended like so:

...
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 ./wrjpgcom.1 
/Users/optilude/Plone-3.0-buildout/Python-2.4.4/man/man1/wrjpgcom.1
Existing Python discovered at 
/Users/optilude/Plone-3.0-buildout/Python-2.4.4; Skipping Python install.
Unpacking buildout cache to /Users/optilude/Plone-3.0-buildout/.buildout
Generating random password ...
./install.sh: line 473: 
/Users/optilude/Plone-3.0-buildout/Python-2.4.4/bin/python: No such file 
or directory
Copying ZEO Cluster buildout template
Running buildout
helper_scripts/cluster-mode.sh: bin/buildout: 
/Users/optilude/Plone-3.0-buildout/Python-2.4.4/bin/python: bad 
interpreter: No such file or directory
Parts of the install are missing. Buildout must have failed. Aborting.

Sure enough, there's no Python in 
/Users/optilude/Plone-3.0-buildout/Python-2.4.4/bin :-/

The problem is in install.sh, line 386. It seems to create the directory 
  first and then test for that. I changed it to:

	if [ -x $PY ]

which checks for the python binary directly. That's better - compiling 
Python now.

(10 minutes later)

yup - Plone starting up ;-)

Cheers,
Martin

-- 
Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book
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