[Product-Developers] Re: Introducing plonenext

Alex Clark aclark at aclark.net
Thu Sep 18 07:09:07 UTC 2008


Rock! This looks cool, thanks.

On 2008-09-18, Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net> wrote:
> Over the last few weeks (or months by now) I have been tinkering with
> something I have called plonenext. plonenext is a tool that at any point
> in time gives you a view of what the next Plone release will look like
> and to make it easy to test against that. This is very different than
> what ploneout/plone-coredev provide in several ways:
>
> - ploneout/plone-coredev use the current development code of
>   *everything*. plonenext only uses development code for things you tell
>   it to.
> - updating ploneout is incredibly slow. updating plonenext is incredibly
>   fast.
> - since plonenext accuruately reflects the next plone release at any
>   moment it provides a much better test environment for new code.
>
> You can get plonenext here:
> http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plonenext/3.2
>
> plonenext is useful right now, and has been my preferred (and only) way
> of doing development on Plone itself for some time now. I'm hoping it
> will be useful for others as well.
>
> I have attempted to write some useful documentation of plonenext and
> the tools it provides, which you can find here:
> http://svn.plone.org/svn/plone/plonenext/3.2/README.txt
>
> Wichert.
>


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