James wrote:

Not all of the servers will have full time internet connections, so I can't rely on accessing them via the web. I think that copying a specific

Zope 1.10's (documented) import/export facility enables this. Later we will look at an offline synchronization feature, though this is open source and someone should easily be able to grok import/export and extend it.

server's database over the previous Zope database, restarting Zope, editing properties and then repeating the process for the next server would be a pain. I'd much rather pull up pico and edit a static configuration file.

As mentioned later, Zope has a simple RPC mechanism -- it's called HTTP! ZClient is a package in Zope that automates this. It makes it convenient to connect to Zope and communicate with it from a scripting, non-interactive environment. As for going into a text file and making edits that affect the behavior of a number of Zope sites, this isn't very object oriented at all and is the kind of anti-Zen Zope strives against. Just my $0.02. If you want to edit a file and have it take effect in many Zopes, I don't think it should be too hard to make it do it. --Paul