[Zope-CMF] Re: Tools as local utilities

[Daniel Nouri]

Lennart Regebro wrote:
> Bildout, ploneout and workingenv are there to try to solve these
> problems. If you don't like *them* I fully understand. They annoy me
> since they install like, every again, which takes time, and their
> complicated, and developer packages that ue them often require me to
> create a new Zope-instance even if I don't want to.

You can convert an existing instance into a workingenv pretty easily[1].
ploneenv[2] inherits this flexibility.


[1]
http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/how-to-hack-your-zope-2-instance-so-that-you-can-install-python-packages-using-easy_install
[2] http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/ploneenv