Re: Try Plock 0.3.0

Hi Jean-Sébastien


On 4/28/15 3:41 AM, Jean-Sébastien Mansart wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've read your post carrefully yesterday, and I've got a question : for
> who is plock ?
>
> Is it for newbees that want to test plone and simplify them the
> installation ?
> (it seems...)
>
> Thanks for it anyway !


Thanks for the feedback! It's primarily for me, and potentially useful 
to others (as these things normally go.)

Some reasons I like it:

- Allows me to move fast on the command line and spin up throw away test 
Plone sites easily e.g. $ plock `tmp`
- Lists add-ons in a way that makes them consumable by shell utilities 
e.g. Install every plonetheme: $ plock -i `plock -lr | grep plonetheme` 
`tmp`
- It provides a conceptual link to `pip install Plone` which is not a 
reality yet but I'd like it to be: 
https://github.com/plock/plock#why-build-plock-on-top-of-buildout
- The Plock utility is a companion to Plock Pins, an opinionated 
repository of Buildout configuration files for Plone: 
https://github.com/plock/pins

I basically got tired of this routine (and yes I know about bootstrap.py):

$ cd `tmp`
$ virtualenv .
$ bin/pip install zc.buildout
$ bin/buildout init
$ vi buildout.cfg
$ bin/buildout

Plock automates these steps for me, among other things. Lastly, I like 
that I can tell beginners to install Plone with something like:

$ pip install plock; plock plone; plone/bin/plone fg

Oh, and now that I'm thinking about it: one of the opinions Plock Pins 
makes is what to call the thing that runs Plone. Plock calls it:

$ plone

Nothing drives me more insane than starting Plone with something called 
"instance", as if everyone in the world knows Plone and the 
corresponding thing you run to start is called "instance". **SHIVERS**

Lastly Part II, I was excited when David Bain contributed the universal 
installer tarball download to Plock and created a promotional banner. 
This gave Plock some legitimacy outside my limited-scope vision which I 
appreciate and hopefully others will too.


Anyway, enough rambling.


Hope that helps,



Alex



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> Le 28/04/2015 00:41, Alex Clark a écrit :
>> Hello Plone Users!
>>
>> Just dropping a line to ask folks to test my new Plone installer called
>> "Plock". It is a labor of <3:
>>
>> - Blog Entry:http://blog.aclark.net/2015/04/26/plock-rocks/
>> - Install: $ pip install plock
>>
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Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight.
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