Best Practices of Plone Development

1.2 Products 1 BEST PRACTICES FOR PLONE DEVELOPMENT
1.2.6 Framework: skins/
• Contains the skin folders
– Not the skins directly
• Skin folder convention is lower-cased, no-space version of product name
1.2.7 Framework: Extensions
• Install.py script install product
– Detailed later
• External methods for this product
– Works same as site-wide external methods (in instance Extensions)
– Except “Module name” includes Product
∗ eg, YourProduct.ExternalMethodFile
1.2.8 Framework: doc/
• Documentation directory
• Not used by Plone
1.2.9 Framework: VERSION.txt
• Should contain just version number (“1.0.1”)
• Shown in Plone control panel
• Easy way to tell what version is installed
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