Minitage and projects templates¶

paster is your friend¶

paster from PasteScripts 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:
```
$mt/bin/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.
minitage is optionnal, you can use the templates without.

Basicly it will create the following things:

A project layout
If you choosed to answer yes to "are you inside a minitage", a minilay containing:
- minibuild(s) (inside the previous minilay) which points to the project layout.

$mt/bin/paster create --list-templates | grep minitage | grep -v instances

The projects are just specialized paster templates so you just have to apply a template to a project.

There are two ways to use one project, insde or outside minitage, just by answering yes or no to the minitage presence question.

For example, we will use the ‘minitage.plone3’ project to generate a base for ‘myproject’

inside minitage:

$mt/bin/paster create -t minitage.plone3 myproject inside_minitage=yes
# then look in $mt/categ/project and $mt/minilays/project

without minitage:

paster create -t minitage.plone3 myproject inside_minitage=no
# then look in ./project