Installing Add-Ons TTW
by
Ross Patterson
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last modified
Feb 10, 2008 10:22 PM
point-and-click installation of Plone extensions
While building this site I was reminded of one of the areas where Plone has fallen behind some of the competition: installing add-ons. With buildout, eggs, entry_points, easy_install, and PyPI it seems like providing a TTW, one-step, point-and-click add-on install story is just a matter of stitching together the pieces. It's a project that I would love to work on if I ever have any free time or if anyone wants to sponsor it.
Is there any work out there on this already?
Previous:
S3/SimpleDB ZODB
Eggnest
Martin Lundwall in my Company (Webworks Sweden) has released an egg called "eggnest":
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/buildout.eggnest
http://jorgenmodin.net/[…]/eggnest---a-product-folder-for-buildout
It allows each egg spec in a buildout config to be in its own little text file in a directory. Each file with a text snippet in it is then combined with the buildout config on buildout.
The next step could be to have these text snippets in a signed repository on the Internet, and they could be managed (downloaded to the folder) through the web, in a Plone control panel, similar to the behaviour a a package manager such as synaptic on Ubuntu.
/Jörgen