[Product-Developers] Installing a product through its extension profile

[Wichert Akkerman]

Andreas Jung wrote:
>
>
> --On 23. Dezember 2007 02:52:47 +0100 Wichert Akkerman 
> <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
>
>> Previously Andreas Jung wrote:
>>> I created a new Plone 3 site using the PloneBoard extension profile
>>> (latest eggified PB version). After creating the site PB I was 
>>> surprised
>>> that the  PB
>>> content types showed up automatically in the Add menu of the Plone
>>> UI....so  what's the trick to install a product using an extension
>>> profile without  explicit installation through the portal 
>>> quickinstaller?
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean. The only different between importing the
>> extension profile and using quickinstaller is that quickinstaller does
>> not state snapshotting so it can figure out what changes are made.
>
> See my reply to my original posting. I was just confusing to see that
> PB was directly available after creating the Plone site although the 
> quickinstaller showed PB under uninstalled products. The reason for 
> this is clear now but it conflicted with the standard procedure to 
> install all
> products first using the quickinstaller.
Right. That will be changed in Plone 3.1 if all goes well: QI will 
notice that you imported the products whole profile and mark it as 
installed automatically.

Wichert.

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