Question

I have had problems getting a paster generated theme product to work in my production Plone 4.0 server, so I thought I would try again now that 4.1 is out. I’m now having a different problem: the theme just doesn’t show up in the Add-ons list. Here’s what I did:

• Installed Plone 4.1 for Windows from Enfold

• Downloaded ez_setup.py, and ran it with Plone’s embedded python

• Ran the installed easy_install to get the latest ZopeSkel installed into the embedded Python.

• mkdir src ; cd src ; ..\python\Scripts\paster create -t plone3_theme plonetheme.lt

  Answered the questions so that I’d get a theme based on the plone4 Sunburst theme

  Otherwise I don’t touch anything in that generated code.

• cd plonetheme.lt ; ….\python\python.exe setup.py develop [not sure if I need to do this]

• Edit the buildout.cfg to add plonetheme.lt to the eggs list, and added:
  develop = src/plonetheme.lt

• Run buildout. It mentions that it can find the plonetheme.lt package.

• Start Zeo and Plone servers

• The plonetheme.lt does not appear in the list of Add-ons

What can I have missed? I’ve poured over the bits of documentation on plone.org and I have Martin Aspeli’s books. Many thanks. I’ve also tried adding the packaging to the zcml slugs, to no avail.

Luke

Answer 1

“cd plonetheme.lt ; ….\python\python.exe setup.py develop [not sure if I need to do this]”

no this is useless

“Edit the buildout.cfg to add plonetheme.lt to the eggs list, and added: develop = src/plonetheme.lt”

you need to add it to the zcml list too.

More info:

Take a look at the step 2 of this guide:
http://plone.org/documentation/kb/add-ons/installing