Development Map
This page is designed to give developers an overview of the Plumi software. This is a work in progress, further documentation of the Plumi project will follow.
Anatomy of Plumi Buildout
This is what you will find inside your Plumi buildout, with a brief explanation of each file/directory. This may change between different Plumi releases, so it should be used as a guide only.
- AUTHORS.txt - a list of authors of the Plumi buildout code
- bin - contains executables
- bootstrap.py - Python script used to run the buildout
- build.cfg, base.cfg - the main configuration files for the buildout
- production.cfg, devel.cfg - production and development buildout files
- develop-eggs - contains egg-links to development eggs
- downloads - a directory to hold downloaded software such as Squid and Zope tarballs
- eggs - contains downloaded eggs (distributed Python packages)
- fake-eggs - a way of locating pre-egg Zope packages, a fake-egg is like a develop egg that points to the source code in parts/zope2/lib/python/* (or wherever your Zope software home is)
- GPL-3.txt - full text of the GNU General Public License, Version 3
- LICENSE.txt - notes the licence under which Plumi is released (see full text in GPL-3.txt)
- MIGRATING.txt - notes on migrating from previous versions of Plumi
- parts - contains files managed by the buildout
- products - can be used for old-style Zope/Plone products (pre-egg)
- README-PLUMI.txt - readme notes for Plumi
- README.txt - readme notes for using any custom Plone buildout
- site.cfg - site specific configuration information used in buildout to drive the process
- scripts - holds scripts utilised by the transcode daemon
- src - used for custom eggs
- TODO.txt - the general to-do list for Plone-based buildouts
- transcoded - contains video files transcoded by Transcode Daemon
- twistd.log - a log for the Twisted event-driven networking engine (part of Transcode Daemon)
- var - used for Data.fs and logs
- versions - contains configuration files listing which versions of packages the buildout will use
Plumi Packages and Application Setup
The Plumi buildout consists of a few elements as add-ons to Zope and Plone, which are the Plumi application setup, Plumi skin, Plumi content types and third-party products or Python packages. This section needs filling out in more detail, but should give you an overview of what Plumi encompasses.
- Zope and Plone - application server, database and content management system
- Squid/Apache - Squid caching and Apache configuration
- Plumi Application Setup (pulls in all of the packages required by Plumi, and installs default settings, objects and portal tabs)
- Plumi Skin (CSS and page templates)
- Plumi Content Types (additional to default news, video, events, pages etc. provided by Plone)
- Plumi Video
- Callouts
- Plumi migration (migrating from Plone 2.x sites, deprecated since Plumi 4)
- Transcode Daemon (network service, video playback in the browser and transcoding framework, integrating transcoding of uploaded video files into Plone)
- Third-Party Plone Products and packages, e.g.
- ATVocabularyManager - to manage topics and genres
- Configuration registry - A 'Mozilla about:config' style configuration registry
- ContentLicensing - package to integrate open content licenses
- LinguaPlone - Multi-lingual support for Plone
- Marshall
- Plone Discussions - Commenting infrastructure for Plone
- Plone JQuery Tools Integration - Profile for Plone's JQuery Tools resources.
- unweb.shareit - Share content on social networking sites
- qi.Portlet.Tagcloud - A static tagcloud product with a topic navigation
- contentratings - Extension profile for the "contentratings" Plone theme.
- json_migrator
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- plone.app.blob
- 'File' replacement type - Extension profile to replace the standard 'File' content type with a compatible one based on ZODB 3.8 blobs
- plone.app.imaging - User-configurable image scaling
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