A Plone 4.3 latest Minimal Buildout that just works.

Often people (mostly Gogo) are running into massive problems with Plone buildouts. Problem is here not Plone, but setuptools: it was forked into distribute and setuptools, then the reunion of both, the further development. Future looks good for setuptools. But ghosts of the past are still hunting us.

So in short there are only a few things todo:

• use Python 2.7, with virtualenv >=1.9.1 with parameter --no-setuptools
  
• use a bootstrap.py fetching the latest setuptools (thx to Daniel Widerin for this).
• pin zc.buildout to 2.2.1 and setuptools to 2.2

Complete Example Gist

buildout.cfg looks like so:

[buildout]
extends = http://dist.plone.org/release/4.3-latest/versions.cfg
find-links +=
    http://effbot.org/downloads/
parts = instance

[versions]
zc.buildout = >= 2.2.1
setuptools = >= 2.2

[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
http-address = 8080
user = admin:admin
eggs =
    Plone
    Pillow

So, make a new directory, copy both file into and cd into it.

Then check your virtualenv --version to be >=1.9.1

Run

virtualenv --no-setuptools .
./bin/python bootstrap.py
./bin/buildout

Now run Plone

./bin/instance fg

I hope it helps. And if it now still doesnt work: Other People may feel worst.

PS.: I just found Hannes has minimalplone4 in collective targeting the same problem

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