Buildout

Introduction

IntelliJ IDEA supports buildout in the following activities:

• Django server run/debug configurations.

• Running the tasks of the manage.py utility.

Prerequisites

IntelliJ IDEA recognizes buildout support in existing projects. However, you have to perform the following general steps as prerequisites (outside of IntelliJ IDEA):

1. Add buildout.cfg and setup.py files to the root directory of your project.

2. Check out bootstrap.py and place it to the root directory of your project.

3. Execute bootstrap.py to create the buildout directory structure, download buildout.exe, and the other dependencies.

4. Execute bin\buildout.exe script. This will download the dependencies and generate a runner script for each of the parts listed in buildout.cfg.

Buildout Support

Buildout files are marked with icon.

Buildout support includes:

• Code completion.

• Error and syntax highlighting.

• Code formatting and folding.