Welcome to Buildout’s documentation!

Contents:

• Buildout, an automation tool written in and extended with Python
  • Repeatability
  • Componentization
  • Automation
  • Learning more
  • Additional resources
• Getting started with Buildout
  • First steps
  • Installing software
  • Generating configuration and custom scripts
  • Version control
  • More than just a package installer
  • Repeatability
  • Python development projects
  • Where to go from here?
• Buildout Topics
  • History, motivation, and Python packaging
  • Staying DRY with value substitutions, extending, and macros
  • Automatic installation of part dependencies
  • Optimizing buildouts with shared eggs and download caches
  • Bootstrapping
  • Buildout extensions
  • Writing Buildout recipes
  • Meta-recipes
• Reference
  • The Buildout command line
  • Buildout configuration options
  • Configuration file syntax