Better resources to learn buildout

Question

I am trying to grasp a bit more of buildout with this tutorial, but unlike a tutorial, it seems like a cut and paste of presentation slides. I don\'t have a really clear idea of

Answer 1

I quite like the Plone Buildout Tutorial.

It gives a reasonable overview of how it all works and the ways in which you can extend a simple buildout file.

Here is the new link to Plone Buildout Tutorial.

Answer 2

The most useful resource that I found so far are the videos from pycon 2009 on Setuptools, Distutils and Buildout.

Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 1

Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 2

Eggs and Buildout Deployment in Python - Part 3

Check it out.