Chris Withers wrote:
Shane Hathaway wrote:
That's an excellent suggestion that could be taken a little further: make "static snapshot" a new option on the "export" screen. It would simply create a .tar.gz.
What's the difference between a "static snapsnot" and a normal "export" ?
Zope currently exports a big collection of Python objects, including security information, attributes, and a lot of other things. The only way to read this file is to use Zope. It is intended to make it possible to precisely reconstitute a set of objects. A static snapshot would be a collection of HTML and graphics files, intended to be served up by a simple web server. It would not be useful to try to re-import this kind of file back into Zope; all of the metadata would be lost. Its usefulness would be the fact that, using a server such as Apache, the pages could be served at a rate of thousands of hits per second. Shane