[Product-Developers] Re: How to deploy a plone 3 site??

[David Bain]

Perhaps I'm misreading the vanrees.org blog, but it seems to imply
that eggs you develop yourself go into the src/ directory, even when
they are production eggs.

Again, I may have completely misunderstood the comments.

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:40 +0000, Maurits van Rees wrote:
>> Mark Phillips, on 2008-09-01:
>> > In the world of Plone 3, it seems I have to merge the buildout.cfg from
>> > my development machine and the one on my production machine, taking care
>> > to change only what needs to be changed - somewhat complicated by the
>> > fact that the production server uses zeo and the development machine
>> > uses a single instance of plone. Then, I copy over the src directory and
>> > run bin/buildout.
>>
>> You can use the same buildout directory (stored and tagged in svn) for
>> development and deployment.  Like Raphael said, you can use one cfg
>> file for each situation.  This is how we do it at Zest Software:
>>
>> http://vanrees.org/weblog/archive/2007/12/27/buildout-development-production-strategy
>>
>> > The merging of buildout.cfg files seems to be a very error-prone manual
>> > process.
>>
>> You can make the two different cfg files look as much alike as you can
>> so they are easy to compare.  See:
>>
>> http://vanrees.org/weblog/archive/2008/07/08/versions-buildout
>>
>> BTW, those two weblog entries are from my brother Reinout, not from
>> me. :-)
>
> I read through the two blog entries, and I am just too new to
> buildout.cfg to understand what you are doing. Is there a tutorial you
> can point me to that will bring me up to the level you guys are at so I
> can begin to appreciate what you have created?
>
> Perhaps I just need more caffeine, but after 5 shots I am still in a
> fog....;-)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
>
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