Introducing Plock — ACLARK.NET

Plock is a Plone Installer for the Pip-Loving Crowd. Plone is a Python-based CMS.

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

See https://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=browse&show=all&c=563 for a complete list of add-ons compatible with Plone 4.3.

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.