[Grok-dev] Re: the checking-your-project-back-out story

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> Martijn Faassen <faassen at startifact.com> writes:
> 
> > Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> >
> >> I really like just including "bootstrap.py" because then the
> >> instructions are very simple for how to "get your project working
> >> again" when you've checked it out.
> >
> > +1
> 
> Another option is possible beyond the ones I listed, by the way: we
> could give the "grokproject" command the ability to operate upon an
> existing Grok project, instead of only being able to create new ones.
> That way they could:
> 
>   $ svn co .../myproject
>   $ grokproject myproject
>   Rebuild/repair existing Grok project 'myproject'? [yn] y
>   $ cd myproject
>   $ bin/zopectl fg
> 
> and be up and running.  This way we would not have to include the
> extra clutter of a "bootstrap.py" file whose purpose beginning users
> might be confused about.  We could also hide from them the fact that
> two buildout-like steps (bootstrap then buildout) are involved.

paste can already do that. I think grokproject should be rewritten to be
just a paste template, similar to, for example, the plone hosting
template.

Wichert.

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