Hi Seb, can you post the details here ? I have tried this at various times and never been completely happy. Are you using ZEO ? Some random notes for the original poster: I use xemacs for editing product source files (local) and keep auto-refresh turned on for products in development. I run zope in debug mode in a window where I can check for syntax errors (which may prevent refresh) and increasingly, low-tech sys.stderr.write print statements, which I insert to see what's going on. I also use doctests for this purpose, as well as for unit tests. For remote servers I use sitecopy + makefiles for pushing new content and to automate various ZMI operations. I often use zwiki-mode.el in xemacs to edit remote wiki pages, but mostly use a web browser or upload scripts to edit other kinds of zodb object, since ftp/webdav access usually isn't available. -Simon PS you may find http://zwiki.org/ZopeProductMakefile of interest