[Zope] WebDAV, Zope object locking

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hung Jung Lu [mailto:hungjunglu@hotmail.com]
 
> When several people are working on the same site,
> what is the current approach in preventing two
> people modifying the same object?

Lock the object in a version so that the user who is not currently
logged into the version gets an error when they try to modify the
object.
 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> I have seen the buzzword WebDAV here and there.
> I have visited the http://www.webdav.org/ site,
> but I am still clueless as what it is. It WebDAV
> still under intense development?

Yep.

> Does Zope support
> WebDAV now?

Yep.

> Is WebDAV just a protocol extension
> to HTTP,

Yep.

> so people are still talking to each other
> on how to shape up this protocol?

Yep.

> For developers
> and content managers, what software do we need to
> install to use WebDAV?

Just Zope, and a good client (I don't know of any off hand).
 
> When the Zope people talk about a "Zope WebDAV
> Test Server", are they referring to
> 
> (1) A downloadable software package, or

No.

> (2) A physical server machine, much like a website
>      where you can create accounts for people so they
>      can help to develop the eventual server software?

Yep. 

http://webdav.zope.org/

-Michel