collective.recipe.template Buildout recipe to generate a text file from a template Introduction ============ This recipe can be used to generate textfiles from a (text) template. A short example:: [buildout] parts = zope.conf [message] recipe = collective.recipe.template input = templates/message.in output = /message mymessage = Hello, World! In the template you can use the exact same variables as you can use in the buildout configuration. For example an input file can look like this:: My top level directory is ${buildout:directory} Executables are stored in ${buildout:bin-directory} As an extension to the buildout syntax you can reference variables from the current buildout part directly. For example:: My message is: ${mymessage} Why another template recipe? ---------------------------- Both `iw.recipe.template`_ and `inquant.recipe.textfile`_ claim to do the same thing. I have found them to be undocumented and too buggy for real world use, and neither are in a public repository where I could fix them. In addition this implementation leverages the buildout variable substitution code, making it a lot simpler. Changelog ========= 1.0rc2 - 2008-07-04 ------------------- * Add a MANIFEST.in with instructions to include docs/, otherwise the package will not install. [wichert] 1.0rc1 - 2008-07-04 ------------------- * Initial release. [wichert] Wichert Akkerman b63a6afc1b6baf3563100e9a42e7f274c0f8bdc2 1.0rc2