[Zope] - Why I don't think Zope will work for me

[Andreas Kostyrka]

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Curtis Galloway wrote:

> Zope is very cool.  Zope has many useful features.  But I believe that storing
> most of your useful data inside an opaque object database is a fatal flaw.
*nod* :)
> 
> I learned through painful experience that having your project data in text
> files in a filesystem is a Good Thing.  You can use standard UNIX tools to
> manipulate these files.  You can use EMACS or vi or any other tool to edit
> them.  And most importantly, you can use CVS or RCS or any other similar tool
> for source control.
*nod* HOW can people live without CVS on single developer projects, and
even worse on multiple developer stuff?
> 
> I just don't see how you can build a large project with multiple developers
> using a Netscape browser as your editing tool, unless I'm missing something
> very obvious about the way Zope works.
Agreed :)

That's why I've build my own ``little'' (perhaps tiny would describe it
better) Zope Clone, using only Bobo&DocumentTemplate. As you've notices
I've left out BoboPOS, so you can guess where I'm storing my data.
Yes, on the filesystem. (Not completly correct, as I'm using an
filestorage API, I could (at least in theory) store the whole site or part
of it somewhere else, be it an SQL server, be it something else ;) )

Andreas
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