In this directory you can find templates which are used by ``zc.buildout`` to create the configuration files in the parts/etc/ subdir of your project. If you modify files in this directory, you have to run:: $ bin/buildout afterwards to rebuild the configuration files in parts/etc/. In the templates you can use placesholders recognized by zc.buildout to name local paths, etc. A zc.buildout placeholder looks like this:: ${buildout:directory} which gives you the path of the project directory and will be substituted with the real path when you run buildout the next time. The set of available placeholders depends on your buildout.cfg. You can also modify files in parts/etc directly, but those changes will be overwritten after running bin/buildout the next time. To run your project you can do:: $ bin/paster serve parts/etc/deploy.ini