Hi Bob, I would be most interested to hear about your experience with ZCVSMixin, or anyone elses! I've gotten very little feedback, and what I have gotten, I've incorporated into the Product. The main problems I see at this time are: 1) It doesn't handle recursion.... a lot of that has to be don manually at this time.... this is close to the top of my priority list... but time is very limited.... 2) The Container/Contianment problem: Right now with ZCVSMixin you can check in an entire ZClass (or any folderish object really...) including all it's methods/properties/etc as one monolithic 'zexp'. You can also check in the methods of a ZClass as individual objects. There is no way (right now) to check in 'everything about this object *except* it's contents.... . I'm not even sure how to approach the problem.... ideas about this are most welcome! Right now... our project is running two 'development' servers, and a 'live' server, all sharing objects and classes with ZCVSMixin, (and plain old CVS for the Product level Python bits...., but managed through the web with ZCVSMixin.) Are there other major issues I'm missing? thanks! -steve
"Bob" == Bob Crosley <bobc@hilgraeve.com> writes:
Bob> As our development team grows, and our application grows more Bob> complex, version control in Zope becomes more problematic. Bob> I'm trying to do some research into the different techniques Bob> people are using to manage application development. Bob> Here's our current situation. *We have a web application Bob> that contains both your standard web site/marketing copy type Bob> pages, and the application itself. *We have a team of 7 Bob> developers including application developers and HTML Bob> coders/Graphic Artists. Bob> We have a number of problems we're trying to solve. If you Bob> have a solution that's worked for you for any of these Bob> problems, I'd love to hear about it. Bob> 1) "Code Collisions." - Developers overwriting each other's Bob> work. 2) Partial updates - Right now, we have new pages for Bob> marketing content that are held up because we don't have our Bob> new features for the application done yet. So we can't Bob> update marketing pages without updating the app at the same Bob> time, (one ZODB) unless we directly update the production Bob> servers. (Eeek!) Bob> We looked at ZCVSMixin for a solution to problem 1, and it Bob> shows a lot of promise but isn't quite there yet. For Bob> problem 2, we considered the idea of running two Zopes for Bob> the app, using one to serve the marketing pages, and one for Bob> the application pages so they could be updated independently. Bob> Has anyone done that? We have images and appearance Bob> attributes stored in the ZODB and don't want to have to keep Bob> seperate sets of those, so any solution would have to be able Bob> to draw off the same images and appearance variables. Bob> Any feedback anyone can provide would be very helpful. Bob> Thanks, Bob Bob> _______________________________________________ Zope maillist Bob> - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope Bob> ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - Bob> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce Bob> http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )