Chris, I've always used the dev-stage-product metaphor, but needed to make a 'quickish' change, which eventually took a few days. I sort of guessed that ZC developers didn't make much use of them ;) OK, then versions are out. 8¬( Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris McDonough" <chrism@digicool.com> To: "Phil Harris" <phil.harris@zope.co.uk> Cc: <zope@zope.org> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [Zope] VersionLockError
Phil Harris wrote:
Chris,
Thanks, that's what I ended up doing.
A question since you're a ZC employee.
Always a liability under questioning. ;-)
Do any of the developers at ZC use versions in any serious way? I've seen numerous posts now about versions being locked etc.
Well, versions are useful under certain circumstances, but I don't make much use of them personally. And most of our customers prefer the dev-stage-production model instead of versions for reasons like the one you've just experienced.
The advice about saving/discarding is obviously not workable, since the whole idea is that it's a work in progress.
I wouldn't personally depend on versions in any site that makes heavy use of incremental catalog indexing. Otherwise I might use them once in a while, but never as a sole staging tool.