While starting on my next Plone site today (yup, gotta keep 'em coming!) I decided to brush up my existing convenience script for automatically creating an installable skeleton version of a Plone Product.

The main problem in the initial version was how to create a selectable skin instance programmatically during installation and then how to add the product's skin paths to that instance - I didn't have a clue (and thus did it manually in the ZMI). Thankfully, Martin Aspeli had solved that meanwhile in his Product MySite! However, MySite still requires lots of tedious, manual steps (mainly copy & paste and search & replace) so I decided to put the two together and voila! Instant, installable Plone skin ;-)

I've uploaded the README and an installable archive of the script. I hope somebody will find it usefull. And as for myself: I guess after three to five more skins I'll have made up the time I've invested in the script ;-)