[Plone-UI] Theme Distribution (was: Should we integrate ACE into p.a.theming?)
Ross Patterson
me at rpatterson.net
Thu Sep 8 23:08:54 UTC 2011
Martin Aspeli <optilude+lists at gmail.com>
writes:
> On 6 September 2011 23:34, Alex Clark
> <aclark at aclark.net> wrote:
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> Indeed. I tried to do this with the "Diazo theming sprint" a few
> months back. And several folks followed the "mentioning the zip
> file first" pattern. E.g.
>
> - http://plone.org/products/plonetheme.earthlingtwo
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> But the controversial part was: I put the zips inside a Python
> package because that struck me as the most logical thing to do. It
> struck other folks as the opposite. The logic was based almost
> entirely on one thing: easy distribution. If I create a zip inside
> a Python package, I can use existing tools to publish it (i.e.
> mkrelease). If not, I'd have to upload TTW (which I ended up doing
> anyway to quell complaints).
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> Anyway, in the real world, with elro's resource directory feature
> in p.r.zope2instance, I suspect *just zips* has at least a
> fighting chance to catch on. It would stand a better chance if we
> built a new place to upload them (e.g. an overhauled PSC perhaps
> integrated with thememanager[1])
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> First of all, we could make tools (or you could ;-) to make it a
> one-command thing to upload a theme to plone.org.
>
> Secondly, this wouldn't have felt natural to you if you weren't a
> developer used to creating eggs and uploading them to PyPI.
What about versioning themes then? Wouldn't we have to reinvent a bunch
of wheels if we don't use eggs?
Ross
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