Overview of GenericSetup

This product provides a mini-framework for expressing the configured state of a Zope Site as a set of filesystem artifacts. These artifacts consist of declarative XML files, which spell out the configuration settings for each “tool” in the site , and supporting scripts / templates, in their “canonical” filesystem representations.

Configurations Included

The setup_tool knows how to export / import configurations and scripts for the following components of a site:

• itself :)
• removal / creation of specified tools
• the role / permission map on the “site” object (its parent)
• properties of the site object
• “Placeful” utilities and adapters registered in the local site manager. Placeless utilities can only be imported.

Extending The Tool

Third-party products extend the tool by registering handlers for import / export of their unique tools.

See also

See How-to: Writing setup handlers for Products.GenericSetup for a step by step how-to.

Providing Profiles

GenericSetup doesn’t ship with any profile. They have to be provided by third-party products and depend on the registered handlers.

See also

See About Profiles for more details.

Other Documentation

• Installing Products.GenericSetup
  • Installation via easy_install
  • Installation via zc.buildout
  • Manual Installation
• How-to: Writing setup handlers for Products.GenericSetup
  • Step 1:
  • Step 2:
  • Step 3:
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• About Profiles
  • Overview
  • Registering Profiles
  • Update Directives
  • Other Special Directives
• Products.GenericSetup Changelog
  • 1.7.0 (2012-02-27)
  • 1.6.4 (2011-10-31)
  • 1.6.3 (2011-04-02)
  • 1.6.2 (2010-08-12)
  • 1.6.1 (2010-07-04)
  • 1.6.0 (2010-03-08)
  • 1.6.0b1 (2010-01-31)
  • 1.5.0 (2010-01-01)
  • 1.5.0b1 (2009-09-25)
  • 1.4.5 (2009-06-20)
  • 1.4.4 (2009-05-15)
  • 1.4.3 (2009-04-22)
  • 1.4.2.2 (2008-09-22)
  • 1.4.2.1 (2008-09-22)
  • 1.4.2 (2008-09-22)
  • 1.4.1 (2008-05-27)
  • 1.4.0 (2008-03-23)
  • 1.4.0-beta (2008-02-07)
  • 1.3.3 (2007-12-29)
  • 1.3.2 (2007-09-11)
  • 1.3.1 (2007-08-08)
  • 1.3 (2007-07-26)
  • 1.3-beta (2007-07-12)
  • 1.2-beta (2006-09-20)
  • 1.1 (2006-04-16)
  • 1.1-beta2 (2006-03-26)
  • 1.1-beta (2006-03-08)
  • 1.0 (2005-09-23)
  • 0.12 (2005-08-29)
  • 0.11 (2005-08-23)
  • 0.10 (2005-08-11)
  • 0.9 (2005-08-08)
• GenericSetup Credits
• Glossary

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page