Assumptions:
- You don’t have root/admin account on the system.
- You are a clueless Zope3 newbie.
Step 1: Install zc.buildout, zopeproject and zc.sourcerelease.
- download http://svn.colorstudy.com/virtualenv/trunk/virtualenv.py
- $ python2.4 virtalenv.py my_sandbox
- $ cd my_sandbox
- $ bin/easy_install zc.sourcerelease zc.buildout zopeproject
Step 2: Create a Zope3 application.
I do the –no-buildout thing because I want to modify the default buildout.cfg to use KGS before building the thing.
- $ bin/zopeproject zcontact --no-buildout
Enter user (Name of an initial administrator user): manager Enter passwd (Password for the initial administrator user): zcontact Enter eggs_dir (Location where zc.buildout will look for and place packages) ['/home/ignas/buildout-eggs']: eggs
- now, to fix the buildout.cfg so it would not use site-packages from your system to get Improved Reliability™, add
[virtualpython] recipe = tl.buildout_virtual_python headers = true executable-name = vp
- make [buildout] section look like this:
[buildout] index = http://download.zope.org/zope3.4 develop = . parts = virtualpython app test newest = false eggs-directory = eggs
- and finally add this line to both [test] and [app] blocks:
python = virtualpython
Step 3: Package the thing.
- $ bin/buildout-source-release file:///home/ignas/src/zcontact buildout.cfg
You’ll get a zcontact.tgz in the current directory. Your users can
download it, extract and run python2.4 install.py to get a working
application.
