Re: [Plone-installers] Installer information for Plone 3.2 releases

This is where I've assumed we're going. It should pose no problems for the
Unified or OS X installers.

Steve

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> wrote:

>  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.
>
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