plock 0.0.3

Plock is a Plone Installer for the Pip-loving Crowd

plock

Plock is a Plone Installer for the Pip-loving Crowd

Note

Installing Plone with Plock requires an internet connection. If you want to install Plone offline, try Plone’s Unified Installer.

Warning

Installing Plone with Plock is inherently insecure because it relies on a remote hosted configuration file(s) that in theory could be compromised during a MITM-attack.

Installation

Note

Plock supports the latest release (and only the latest release) of Plone, currently Plone 4.3.

Installing Plone with Plock looks like this:

$ pip install plock
$ bin/install-plone
$ bin/plone fg

Configuration

Plone uses Buildout to manage its installation and configuration. Plock creates a buildout.cfg file for you that looks like this:

[buildout]
extends = https://raw.github.com/pythonpackages/buildout-plone/master/latest

[plone]
eggs +=
# Add-ons go here e.g.:
#    Products.PloneFormGen

Add-ons

Warning

Plock lists packages on PyPI with a description, keyword, or summary containing “plone”. Results may include packages that are not installable in the current release of Plone. This issue may be addressed in a future release of plock.

To list available add-ons:

$ bin/install-plone --list-addons

To install add-ons, add the desired Python package name(s) to the eggs += parameter e.g.:

[buildout]
extends = https://raw.github.com/pythonpackages/buildout-plone/master/latest

[plone]
eggs +=
    Products.PloneFormGen

Stop Plone and run Buildout:

$ bin/buildout

Start Plone:

$ bin/plone fg

Install the add-on(s) in Plone via Site Setup -> Add-ons.

Changelog

0.0.3 (2013-07-22)

• List add-ons with bin/install-plone –list-addons

0.0.2 (2013-07-19)

• Provide add-on installation instructions

• Write local buildout.cfg instead of relying on -c remote_cfg.cfg

0.0.1 (2013-07-15)

• Initial release