[Zope-PTK] Impressions of the PTK from my Christmas project

[Bruce C. Dillahunty]

Just to insert a comment from a PTK "lurker"...

This is the best set of installation instructions I have ever ran across for a 
Zope item... I wish we could have this style of instructions for most products 
in an easily found manner... should would help us knewbies.

Thanks Tres!

Bruce

> CVS is still the preferred method of getting the PTK;  we work pretty
> hard not to have the CVS trunk in an inconsistent state.  Tarballs are
> (still) just snapshots.  I can install the PTK into a brand new 2.2.4
> Zope
> in about 5 minutes:
> 
>  * Check out the PTK CVS:
> 
>    0. cd /usr/local/zope
> 
>    1. cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.zope.org:/cvs-repository login
> 
>    2. cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.zope.org:/cvs-repository co ZopePTK
> 
>  * Fetch the PythonMethod product:
> 
>    0. wget
> http://www.zope.org/Members/4am/PythonMethod/PythonMethod-0.1.7-nonbin.tgz
> 
>    1. tar xzf PythonMethod-0.1.7-nonbin.tgz
> 
>    2. mv lib/python/Products/PythonMethod ./PythonMethod-0.1.7
> 
>    3. rm -r lib
> 
>  * Link/copy the PTK filesystem products and PythonMethod into the
> Products directory:
> 
>    0. cd Zope-2.2.4-src/lib/python/Products
> 
>    1. ln -s /usr/local/zope/PythonMethod-0.1.7 ./PythonMethod
> 
>    2. ln -s /usr/local/zope/ZopePTK/ZCallable .
> 
>    3. ln -s /usr/local/zope/ZopePTK/PTKBase .
> 
>    4. ln -s /usr/local/zope/ZopePTK/PTKDemo .
> 
>  * Link/copy the import files for the PTK's through-the-web products
> into the
>    import directory:
> 
>    0. cd /usr/local/zope/Zope-2.2.4-src/import
> 
>    1. ln -s /usr/local/zope/ZopePTK/PTKDemo/Wizard.zexp .
> 
>    2. ln -s /usr/local/zope/ZopePTK/PTKDemo/DemoPortal.zexp .
> 
> 
>  * Load the TTW products:
> 
>    0. Restart Zope.
> 
>    1. Select the Control_Panel/Products "import/export" tab.
> 
>    2. Import 'Wizard.zexp'.
> 
>    3. Import 'DemoPortal.zexp'.
> 
> 
>  * Create a portal:
> 
>    0. In the root of the Zope instance, select 'Portal' from the add
> list.
> 
>    1. Fill out the wizard forms; pay special note to the directive to
> supply
>       a "manager" user with the same ID but a different password than
> your
>       normal manager user.
> 
>  * Customize the DTML in the portal.  You probably want to pay
>    special attention to the stylesheets (in the 'Styles' folder) and
>    to 'standard_html_header' and 'standard_html_footer'.  If your layout
>    needs to be substantially different (not just different
> colors/fonts/text,
>    but a different organization) then you will have to put in more
> effort.
> 

> Tres.
> -- 
> ===============================================================
> Tres Seaver                                tseaver@digicool.com
> Digital Creations     "Zope Dealers"       http://www.zope.org
-- 
Bruce C. Dillahunty
Peachbush Enterprises
bdillahu@peachbush.com