adi.devgen 0.5

Misc helper-scripts for creating and expanding Plone-Add-Ons.

Introduction
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Yet another command-line Plone-Add-On-Generator, just the way I like it:

No dependencies, no possible conflicts, some Python-methods, that's all.



Installation
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pip install adi.devgen


Alternatively add `adi.devgen` as an egg to your buildout, then
the `devgen`-executable should be available in its bin-directory.



Usage
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Type the command alone, to get a help-text, what it can do for you:

$ devgen


That'll also lists the available generator-functions, to get a function's help-text, type:

$ devgen [FUNCTION_NAME]


Examples
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Create boilerplate for an addon, that can do nothing, but be installed in a Plonesite:

$ devgen addProfileSkel your.addon


Create it not in the directory, where you are, but somewhere else:

$ devgen addProfileSkel your.addon /some/where/else


Register another addon as a dependency to your addon:

$ devgen addDep collective.bestaddonever your.addon

Or, first locate into your addon, then you can omit the appended path (defaults to '.'):

$ cd your.addon
$ devgen addDep collective.bestaddonever


Create an installable Plone-Addon, with a stylesheet, a javascript and a template in a skin folder:

$ devgen addSkinSkel your.addon

In contrary to browser-based resources, you won't need to empty the browser's cache on a reload, after changing your stylesheet or javascript.


Create an installable Plone-Addon, with a stylesheet and a javascript in a browser's resource-folder.

$ devgen addBrowserSkel your.addon


Add docs-folder and read defaults for setup.py of a config:

$ devgen addMetaSkel

If a file '~/.buildout/devgen.cfg' is present, values will be read of it and inserted to setup.py. Its format is expected to be like:

author=Arbi Trary

author_email=[e-mail]

url=https://github.com/arbitrary/your.addon


TODO
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- Regard more than one dotted namespace for addon.

- Split functions into smaller reusable chunks.

- Possibly transfer:
https://github.com/ida/skriptz/blob/master/plone/Dexterity/addField.py


Changelog
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0.5 (150921)
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- Fix imports, better hlp-msgs, improve installPlone().


0.4 (150920)
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- Update README


0.3 (150920)
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- Fix changed import-paths.


0.2 (150920)
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- Add adi.commons as dependency.


0.1 (150920)
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- Initial release