[Zope-CMF] Re: CMFSetup, getting started

[Rob Miller]

Rocky Burt wrote:
> 
> I forgot to mention that I'm trying to get started with CMFSetup in CMF 
> 1.5 as my current deployment platform happens to be Plone 2.1.1. 
> Hopefully most of CMFSetup's (from CMF 1.5) functionality is migratable 
> into CMF 2.0.

the CMF 1.5 CMFSetup spellings will work on CMF 2.0, but, unfortunately, 
they are already deprecated.  it is for this reason that i have started 
working on CMF 1.6, which backports the CMF 2.0 GenericSetup/CMFSetup 
code to an otherwise-little-changed CMF 1.5 codebase.  my primary reason 
for doing this is to use it in the next major release of Plone, but it's 
probable that it will end up working w/ Plone 2.1.1, as well.


> Rocky Burt wrote:
> 
>> Hi CMF'ers,
>>
>> With all the recent talks on getting GenericSetup/CMFSetup working on 
>> CMF 2.0 and knowing that CMFSetup is already with us in CMF 1.5, I've 
>> decided to finally take the plunge and figure this thing out.
>>
>> So I started poking around in the CMFSetup and README.txt does a great 
>> job of describing what CMFSetup can do, but doesn't seem to describe 
>> anything on how to actually do it.
>>
>> I guess what I'm asking for here is some starter 
>> docs/comments/examples on getting started with CMFSetup.  Could 
>> someone point out a good example product that makes use of CMFSetup?  
>> Are there any docs out there that describe how to get going with 
>> CMFSetup?

the best overview i know about of how to approach using GenericSetup in 
the 2.0-compatible fashion is a message that yuppie sent to the 
plone-devel list: http://tinyurl.com/8sdx8

there is example code using this in the CMF 1.6 and CMF 2.0 branches as 
well as in the goldegg branch of plone.

i plan on writing up some documentation about how to do this, but right 
now i'm a bit under the gun to get CMF 1.6 in decent shape and get a 
review bundle of Plone working with it for consideration for the next 
Plone release.

-r