[Zope3-Users] Re: Attn Jim Fulton: Buildout builder

[Malthe Borch]

Martijn Faassen wrote:
> Note that Malthe (cc-ed too) is interested in:
> 
> "Architecting and implementing a Zope component that can extend a
> running application in a way that plays nicely with both the component
> architecture and setuptools. The extensions would typically be pulled
> in over the network as eggs."
> 
> which is a project he proposed as a possible summer of code project. I
> see a lot of possible connections between the project you mention and
> this project. I think much of this project could be architected as a
> generic Python library and/or Zope 3 component (that offers some
> abstractions to describe, and possibly also run, a buildout), and then
> you could do the UI in Grok or whatever.

When I first read about the buildout builder I had associations to the 
plone.devel debate on genesis, a code-generation tool for Plone (not 
sure about the scope of it).

If people are supposed to read the output of this tool, then I don't see 
the point of using a tool to generate it. Assuming the output is 
actually readable, why was it then necessary to generate it?

It can be a daunting task to put together a buildout from scratch that 
builds, say, a full Plone site with extension points like the canonical 
Plone buildout configuration does. But why would you?

I'd like to question the objective of the buildout builder project.

I remember reading something like "I'd like to cache my site using 
varnish" and the builder could then make that happen. But you could also 
just google "buildout varnish" and get:

    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.recipe.varnish

and off you are.

\malthe