[Zope3-dev] Buildout default behaviour

[Lennart Regebro]

On 2/19/07, Christian Theune <ct at gocept.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here's the pattern that we use:
>
> - create a directory 'profiles/' in your buildout
> - create a file 'profiles/base.cfg' that describes all parts and their
> default configurations
> - create a file 'profiles/dev.cfg' that has the development variation
> and uses '[buildout] extends=base.cfg'
>
> Then we do not check in a buildout.cfg at all. We put an SVN ignore on
> that actually.
>
> When doing a checkout of the buildout, we run bootstrap which creates an
> empty buildout.cfg (and uninstalls all of the 0 parts which I don't care
> about). We then set the buildout.cfg to look like this:
>
> [buildout]
> extends = profiles/dev.cfg
>
> and run bin/buildout.
>
> This works very well for us.

Good idea, thanks for the hint. That gets around the problem (even
though I still propose that the default behaviour change).

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