Chapter 8. The Future

We have spent a great deal of time demonstrating how to use Buildout to develop, deploy, and maintain Plone sites with a wide variety of.

Now we would like to leave you with a clear path to Plone 4, which is likely to be released around the time this book is published.

It is likely that some of the add-ons we have used in this book do not yet have a corresponding Plone 4 compatible release. We will address that as well.

Before we can safely blast off, we must ensure that our buildouts will execute as successfully in the future as they do now.

In this chapter you will learn:

• Specifying package versions

• Executing Buildout in offline mode

• Analyzing our buildout's contents

• Staying calm when trouble arises

• Upgrading to Plone 4