29 Dec
1998
29 Dec
'98
10:47 p.m.
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. 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. 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. --Curtis