Jeff Rush wrote:

Well, I finally recreated the SiteIndex object + ExternalMethods that reproduces the web page: http://www.zope.org/SiteIndex/newitems.html and it suddenly dawned on me -- such an index is only as up to date as the last time a reindex was done manually, since many of Zope's basic objects are not ZCatalogAware (methods, docs..).

So how is the zope.org site managed? Do you run a cron job nightly to reindex the entire site? That'd be quite a load especially on any site with gbytes of objects. Hmm...

The objects index/re-index/un-index themselves if they are created, edited, or destroyed. Thus, ZCatalog is used programatically. -Michel