browni wrote:
Hello,
I'm a brand new plone user. I recently downloaded the 3.0.2 unified
installer and used it to build my first plone site. (RedHat Linux,
root-install, zeo cluster, 2 clients). Now, I'm looking at the
documentation on plone.org, and alot of it seems to presume that you've used
buildout to build the install.
Can someone explain to me what the effective difference is between using
buildout and using the Unified Installer? Should I start over?
The Unified Installer is great to get up and running quickly, and if you
plan to use Plone mostly as it comes out of the box, maybe with a few
add-on products.
The buildout approach is great if you're a developer, or if you want to
have a bit more fine-grained controlled. I also find it easier to work
with buildout when it comes to installing packages that are distributed
as eggs, which more and more packages are, but you can use the
easy_install binary that the Unified Installer installs to install
egg-based packages.
Note that in the future, we hope that the installers will actually just
create a pre-configured buildout for you, unifying (heh) these two
approaches further.
Martin
--
Author of `Professional Plone Development`, a book for developers who
want to work with Plone. See http://martinaspeli.net/plone-book
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