Chris> It sort of sounds like you've reached a point where you might Chris> benefit from actually writing code on the filesystem (by creating Chris> a Zope "Product") instead of continuing to beat yourself up by Chris> writing "through the web" code. I'd hate to see you get so fed Chris> up with doing things this way that you stop using Zope.
From my experience with Mason, having the ability to just edit my code in the file system is a huge benefit. (For those not familiar with Mason, it provides both through-the-web and local filesystem access to the code.) It's unlikely my client will go for that in this case, but I would sure like to be able to do that for future Zope stuff. For the time being I'll just use ftpmirror.py to keep a local copy I can search through.
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