Posts about Plone

Categorizing Packages: Clarifying Terms

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Some of the friction which comes up on the zope-dev list, apparently due to different goals, might in fact be due to some confusion in the terms we use to talk about our goals, and about the shared software we manage toward those goals. In the interests of reducing the friction, I would like to sketch out how I am using those terms.

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Adding Console Scripts to a Plone Buildout

In a straight setupttools-based application, adding one or more console scripts is straightforward: you just declare them in the setup.py, and set setuptools build them for you. However, when using zc.buildout for Plone 3.0.x or 3.1.x, you have to arrange to get the non-eggified Zope2 products on the path, which is not easy. This recipe works for me.

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My Two Cents

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I'd like to thank the Plone Summit organizers for inviting me to the summit, even though I decided not to go (I just got back from a week in Japan, and boy are my arms tired).

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