[Framework-Team] Re: PLIP #209: Add buildout to Unified Installer

[Martin Aspeli]

Martijn Pieters wrote:
> On Dec 13, 2007 5:06 PM, Steve McMahon <steve at dcn.org> wrote:
>> Please consider PLIP #209:
>>
>> http://plone.org/products/plone/roadmap/209
>>
>> for Plone 3.1 The proposal is to provide a version of the Unified
>> Installer that builds the base Python, but then uses buildout for the
>> final steps. The would replace the existing Unified Installer, which
>> is based on the traditional tarball installation approach.
> 
> Having never used the unified installer myself, I find it hard to
> fully appreciate the risks involved with using buildout for this.
> However, I am a great fan of buildout and using it as a basis for
> Plone installs is in my opinion a honking great idea.

As a non-voting member, I'm incredibly supportive of this - we have too 
many different and confusing ways for users to install Plone right now 
and it makes support hard.

I really hope the Windows installer can catch up!

Martin

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