Introduction

The steps

The steps for minitaging a project are:

• Create the ‘layout’ part of the project.
• Create a minibuild which points to this layout.

Begin a new project with paster and minitage

paster

• paster from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PasteScript/ will assist you in your project creation. If you do not have installed minitage.paste (PasteScript is a dependency, it would be installed when you install minitage.paste), do it now:

  easy_install -U minitage.paste

• Just answer to a bunch of question and it will generate a layout saving you from a lot of edit time.

Basicly it will create the following things:

• A project layout

• A minilay containing:

  • A minibuild (inside the previous minilay) which points to the project layout.

create the project layout

easy_install -U minitage.paste
paster create -t minitage.XXX myproject
... answer the question
... files will be created according to the answers.

What project template to choose?

• for libraries and applications, use minitage.dependency

• for “pur-python” eggs, use minitage.egg

• Zope projects <minitagezope> Some specifics layouts based on zope:

  • for plone25 instances, use minitage.plone25
  • for plone31 instances, use minitage.plone31
  • for plone31 instances with zeo server connection, use minitage.plone31zeo

• for zope3 instances, use minitage.zope3

• for django instances, use minitage.django <minitagedjango>

• for turbogears instances, use minitage.tg.

• for Pylons instances, use minitage.tg.

• for geodjango instances, use minitage.geodjango

• for buildbot slave instances, use minitage.buildbot-slave

• for buildbot master instances, use minitage.buildbot-master