[Grok-dev] Grok on a Paste

[Philipp von Weitershausen]

As some of you know, I've been playing around with running Zope on 
PasteDeploy [1]. I consider this or something very similar to this the 
deployment model of the future [2].

After having developed several prototypes [2], I have now written a tool 
called 'zopeproject' [3] which is to Zope3 what 'grokproject' is to 
Grok. The only difference is that it no longer uses an instance recipe 
to deploy the Zope application, it uses PasteDeploy.

'zopeproject' actually uses all of the lessons learned from recent 
'grokproject' versions, and it abstracts all re-usable parts of the 
sandbox creation so that they can be reused. I've created a branch [4] 
of 'grokproject' that builds on 'zopeproject'. This also means that a 
Grok application created with this new 'grokproject' is deployed using 
PasteDeploy.  Therefore, after running grokproject, you'd no longer use

   $ bin/zopectl fg

to start up the server, but

   $ bin/paster serve deploy.ini

The rest should stay the same.


I would like you guys to take a look at it and test it yourself. After 
checking out the branch, simply bootstrap the buildout and run it::

   $ path/to/some/buildout bootstrap
   $ bin/buildout

Then you'll get a bin/grokproject script that you can use like the one 
you already know:

   $ bin/grokproject MyGreatApp


I'm looking forward to your feedback.


[1] 
http://www.zope.de/redaktion/dzug/tagung/potsdam-2007/folien/zope-on-a-paste.pdf
[2] 
http://www.z3lab.org/sections/blogs/philipp-weitershausen/2007_07_07_death-to-instances
[3] http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zopeproject
[4] svn://svn.zope.org/repos/main/grokproject/branches/use-zopeproject

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