Alex Clark: Introducing Plock Pins

"Plock Pins are the greatest thing to happen to Plone since Buildout"— Alex Clark

Plock Pins are the final incarnation of a collection of Plone Buildouts I've been developing since 2010. They attempt to make it easy to install Plone with only Python installed [1]. Installing Plone with Plock Pins looks like this:

$ virtualenv-2.7 .
$ bin/pip install zc.buildout
$ bin/buildout init

Now edit your buildout.cfg to add a link to extend the Plock Pins:

[buildout]
extends = https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-4-3

Then run Buildout:

$ bin/buildout

Followed by the following command to start Plone:

$ bin/plone fg

That's it! This technique should work for all versions of Plone all the way back to Plone 1.1. If it doesn't, please let me know here:

• https://github.com/plock/pins/issues

Finally, here is a list of all available Plock Pins you can extend [2]:

• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-4-3
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-4-2
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-4-1
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-4-0
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-3-3
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-3-2
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-3-1
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-3-0
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-2-5
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-2-1
• https://raw.github.com/plock/pins/master/plone-1-1