-----Original Message----- From: Kenichi Sato Sent: Monday, 24 September 2001 5:49 PM To: djay Subject: Barriers to Zope popularity: Part 2: source control
Dear Mr. Jay, Dylan,
I am Ken Sato, a manager of software development projects. I'm now taking a look at Zope as a tool to publish project related information internally.
Zope looks nice but I found it has two potential problems.
1. WYSIWYG editing 2. Source control (by ClearCase)
Then, I found that you pointed out exactly same things in the zope-dev mailing list. (http://lists.zope.org/pipermail/zope-dev/1999-September/001602.html)
Because the post was two years ago, I wonder if you have already solved the above problems. It would be very helpful for me if you could give me some information on this issue, please.
Hope you don't mind me CC'ing this to zope-dev. I still see both these issues as important and still see the lack of progress towards Zope working well in traditional development environments being a real outage. Plus others may have different opinions about the current state of affairs 1. I have not used Zope Page Templates but these are supposed to solve the wysiwyg problem. They are an alternative to DMTLDocuments. They allow for much better seperation of code and presentation. Get you graphics people to use webdav to edit the html with whatever editor they want and the coding people argment the html rather than rip it appart. http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Articles/ZPT1 Personally I like DTML and back then I did suggest a way DTML could used in a similar way to Page Templates (basically have a view mode of a DTML document that incorparates the rendered content as well as the DTML code such that when the page is edited and saved back, it will save all the changed parts back to the where they came from, i.e. the different DTMLMethods that made up the page). but like most of my ideas I din't have the ability or time to implement it. 2. Hasn't really been solved. There are sort of attempts that work now with CVS (I havn't tried it) http://www.zope.org/Members/sspickle/ZCVSMixin This but there are proposals that will better solve this problem, but no implementation on the way that I can see. The problem is really one of synchronization. You want two different representations that are both kept upto date. One for zope to use, one for all the reasons we have things under source control. You may or may not want control of when the synchronization occurs. Here are some related proposals http://www.zope.org//Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/SynchronizationMechanismZCVSMix in http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/SynchronizationTab http://www.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Proposals/RepresentingObjectsOnTheFilesyst em I also see a lot of parallels with the work going on with ZODB replication. If you had replication between a normal ZODB and some filesystem source control ZODB then you would have the source control synchronization problem solved maybe? http://dev.zope.org/Wikis/DevSite/Projects/ZEOReplicatedStorage/FrontPage