Curtis Galloway wrote:
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.
(Jim) We do it all the time. Of course, I'd much *rather* use emacs as my editing tool. When Zope has FTP support, then this will be possible. Actually, when FTP support lands, a number of interesting scenarios will be possible.
Note that possible future WebDAV support would also solve many of the issues you note above: o _requires_ a secure connection as part of the spec o DAV has specific support for versioning and distributed authoring by multiple users. There are some interesting future possibilities -- it's not unthinkable that you could have WebDAV-enabled Zope objects based on a real cvs repository. o At a minimum, WebDAV clients should give you a better editing environment, if not let you choose your editor yourself. Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com Software Engineer 540.371.6909 Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com