Buildout Topics

• History, motivation, and Python packaging
  • Isolation from environment
  • Python
  • Buildout and packaging
• Staying DRY with value substitutions, extending, and macros
  • Value substitutions
  • Default and computed option values
  • Sources of configuration options
  • Extending configuration files
  • Conditional configuration sections
  • User-default configuration
  • Merging, rather than overriding values
  • Extending sections using macros
• Automatic installation of part dependencies
• Optimizing buildouts with shared eggs and download caches
  • Shared eggs directory
• Bootstrapping
  • Local bootstrapping using the bootstrap command
  • Using a bootstrapping script
  • Bootstrapping requires a buildout.cfg, init creates one
• Buildout extensions
• Writing Buildout recipes
  • Install recipes
  • Uninstall recipes
  • User interaction: logging and UserError
  • Testing recipes
  • Documenting your recipe
• Meta-recipes
  • A simple meta-recipe example
  • Testing