Managing projects with Buildout

Learn about eggs, setuptools and dependency management, and how to use Buildout to set up a development environment.

1. Introduction Or: "What's wrong with a plain old Zope instance"?
2. Packages, products and eggs Looking at the core concepts in more detail
3. Prerequisites A few things you need before we can get started
4. Creating a buildout for your project How to create a new buildout for a project, adding Plone and other third party products as dependencies
5. Understanding buildout.cfg How to manage the main buildout configuration file
6. Creating a buildout defaults file This makes it possible to share configuration across multiple buildouts, and save some time and disk space.
7. Installing a third party product How to install a new package using these tools
8. Creating a new package
9. A deployment configuration How to use buildout for deployment configuration

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