[Zope] Re: Ape

[Chris Withers]

Paul Winkler wrote:
>> 1. Allow use of source control (branching, diffs, revision history, etc) on 
>> all content types as plain text files, not python pickles.
>> 2. Allow editing of zope objects (DTML, ZPT, ZSQL, py script) externally in 
>> appropriate editor.
>> 3. Allow us to quickly push out minor patches to running servers.
>> 4. A distant final item was using TTW editing to do minor tweaks.
> 
> DirectoryViews would mean you'd lose #4.

If you really need to, you have the "customize" button for temporary 
patches.

> Also, if you have any persistent objects for which there isn't an existing
> FSObject-derived version, you'd have to write one.

GenericSetup likely covers those ;-)

> Another issue is that AFAIK there's no way to control the refresh
> interval of FSObject subclasses.  I guess you could monkeypatch
> FSObject._updateFromFS.  You might want to do that anyway so you
> don't have to run your production servers in debug mode.

I don't think there's any place for debugging or updating from the FS on 
a running production server, but maybe that's just me...

Chris

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