Installer information for Plone 3.2 releases

I had a very brief chat with Sidnei yesterday about installer 
information for Plone 3.2 and later. Since Plone is fully eggified from 
3.2 onwards I want to retire the current dist_plone mechanism and the 
associated plone.recipe.plone recipe.

Since we no longer used any products installing Plone is now so simple 
it no longer required a dedicated buildout recipe: all you need to do is 
install the Plone egg. We do however need to do a bit of version 
pinning. My proposal is to create a mini-KGS that has version pin 
information for all packages that are used by a Plone install and make 
those available at http://dist.plone.org/release/<version number>.  That 
file can be generated by plonenext which already does that for its own use.

Additionally I think it makes sense to add a few extra version pins to 
that mini-KGS for packages that are closely tied to a Plone release such 
as ZopeSkel, but I have no strong opinions on that one.

With this setup a standard buildout configuration will be as simple as this:

    [buildout]
    extends = http://dist.plone.org/release/3.2
    versions = versions
    parts = instance

    [zope2]
    recipe = plone.recipe.zope2install
    url = http://www.zope.org/Products/Zope/2.10.6/Zope-2.10.6-final.tgz
    fake-zope-eggs = true
    additional-fake-eggs =
       ZConfig
       pytz

    [instance]
    recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
    zope2-location = ${zope2:location}
    user = admin:admin
    eggs = Plone
      


we should probably make these fake-zope-eggs settings the default values 
for future plone.recipe.zope2install releases.

Wichert.

-- 
Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]>    It is simple to make things.
http://www.wiggy.net/                   It is hard to make things simple.

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