Hi ya all, since it is a new year, I would like to start 2004 by doing a little survey with people about development tools and methods people actively use. You can either reply privately or publicly and I will collect the answers and produce a report about it. Please answer the questions below before 17 th January and everyone can soon benefit from the shared knowledge. Below are also my answers as examples. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Zope and Python versions currently used in production? Zope 2.6.2 and Python 2.2.3. I'm currently testing 2.7b3 2. CMF / Plone versions in production CMF1.3.2, Plone 1.0.5 Now moving into 1.4.2 and Plone 2 from CVS on new projects. 3. Development and production platforms? Windows as the desktop/frontend machine and Linux running Zope and other backend software. As a linux distribution I use either fedora core or older redhat versions. 4. Editors, IDEs used? WingIDE as IDE. I am a new user to WingIDE - but very impressed with it's functionalities like autocompletion of functions, the possibility to jump into function definitions from code, browse source and naturally debug Zope. I loved to use Eclipse for it's great CVS integration and otherwise great UI - but there really is no real integration of Python into Eclipse. Trustudio python plugin brings in syntax highlighting and that is it. Komodo I used before because I liked it's UI. Have never used Emac's Python module. 5. Zope installations ( Zeo? Instance home? ), ZODB ( FileStorage, DirectoryStorage, APE?), RDBMS Zeo on larger production setups, instance home used on all instances - in development and in production. I use mostly use Filsetorage as the ZODB, though I have done some tests with APE and keep a close eye on it in the future. I'm extremely interested on the possibility to store objects in relational databases. PostgreSQL as RDBMS, using Psycopg as the adapter. 6. Sourcecode-control( CVS, Subversion? ), clients used CVS. TortoiseCVS and/or WinCVS. WinCVS UI is terrible and I would like to get a better tool for doing diffs and getting older revisions etc. from CVS. I don't like command line CVS since I was totally spoiled with Eclipse's extremely nice CVS integration. 7. How to do debugging? I've been using Python debugger on hard problems, otherwise I've usually just printed out to log or to screen debugging information. I will start to use now more WingIDE's debugger. Haven't used python debugger on Zeo installation, nor have I used the zctl-script 8. Profiling, tuning and improving performance? CallProfiler and PT_Profiler as profiling tools. Apache's ab as a tool to create load while testing performance. On production servers I keep Zope atleast behind Apache - possibly Squid and Apache if caching is needed. With Apache I use proxypass, not rewrite-rules. 9. Notes about development I keep as much as possible on the filesystem, so that it can be put into versioning system. On Plone sites I try to create customization policies so that properties of the site are also kept in the code format. This makes it also easier to keep development instances and production instances in sync. Archetypes is naturally beloved too and used as a base, when creating new content types. 10. Anything else? -- -huima