[Distutils] buildout recipe options

[Andreas Jung]

A good recipe has a good documentation and/or doctests. You might check 
on PyPI if a recipe fulfills those requirements. Otherwise, you have to 
read the code or stick with a recipe with a similar functionality.


-aj


On 05.01.2009 20:29 Uhr, dunia wrote:
> Hi list
>
> I'm a little bit confused with the buildout configuration files, and i
> can't find any useful information. I get that every part of the buildout
> has a recipe and this recipe takes some configuration options. My
> question is ...how can i know which are those options? I went through
> the code and found most of them, but not all.
>
> For example, since i'm running on Debian i would like to use buildout +
> dzhandle, so i need plone.recipe.dzhandle. I found some configuration
> options used explicitly in the code (locationtype, location, zopetype,
> version, zope2-location, zopeuser, zcml, serviceuser and instancename),
> but i also found in an example buildout configuration file «httpport»
> (obvious what it is used for) and «threads» (not that obvious for me :)
> ). Also i would like to know which other options i can use to set, for
> instance, dzhandle «--addon-mode» that is mandatory when using dzhandle
> alone.
>
> Maybe this is very simple, i recognize that my knowledge of python is
> not as good as it should be...yet ;). Anyways, any hint would be useful
> for me.
>
> My english is not very good :(, my apologies.
>
> Thanks & happy new year! :)
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