Re: [Plone-docs] third-party products tutorial: 4. Un-installing and removing an Add-on Product

[Jon S. <jo...@on...>]

grahamperrin wrote:
> Jon Stahl wrote:
>   
>> I drafted up a new guide to installing Plone products, covering Zope
>> 2-style, manual EasyInstall and Buildout.  Upon prodding from Darci, I
>> took the liberty of slapping it into your tutorial at
>> http://plone.org/documentation/tutorial/third-party-products/installing.  
>>
>>     
>
> Nice work, thanks! 
>
> A few basics that were, for me, previously unclear are now answered in the
> revised tutorial. Great to have all these basics in one place, in a Plone
> context.
>
> May I suggest an additional section:
>
> 4. Un-installing and removing an Add-on Product 
>
> — to include things like, what should be done with items at 
>
> {python}/lib/{python}/site-packages
>
> and what should be done with ZCML slugs at 
>
> Instance/etc/package-includes
>
> and what should be done with slugs (if any) at 
>
> etc/site-packages
>
> Bear in mind that for some add-on products, simple presence 
> (without installation) may have an effect (not always wholly desirable) 
> on the behaviour of Plone core. So in the context of 
> (2) Evaluation, (4) absolute removal is sometimes of equal importance. 
>   
Graham-

Thanks, this is an excellent suggestion! Do you want to tackle it? I've 
given you editing permission on the tutorial. :-)

best,
jon