Tools used for programming Zope
I recently looked into Zope in some detail and have decided that it's rather cool, with many features that you don't get from J2EE or ASP or PHP, etc. The Through-The-Web (TTW) aspect of it is interesting, and the documentation seems to infer that this is the direction Zope programming is going, with the use of ZClasses and other features. Unfortunately, I'm a little turned off by the fact that you must edit many things using a web browser. For example, ZClasses were cool and easy to configure through the web, until I discovered that I can't recover the source to it as a source file that I can edit with something else. FSDump only does translation one-way to the filesystem and not back again. DTML can be FTP'ed to the server, but what a hassle this is. So how do people go about programming Zope? What sorts of tools do people use, and how do you go about getting your code to and from Zope? Can you use CVS? Thanks for any help with a newcomer. Gerald.
Gerald Gutierrez wrote:
So how do people go about programming Zope? What sorts of tools do people use, and how do you go about getting your code to and from Zope? Can you use CVS?
Look at the CVSMixing thign for this, nto sure how it works but it provides what you want... Apart from that, look at using an FTP or WebDAV enabled editor like DreamWeaver. It works now, but support is supposed to be getting better in Zope 2.3 cheers, Chris
Can Dreamweaver also use the https protocol for WebDAVing? Ragnar
Apart from that, look at using an FTP or WebDAV enabled editor like DreamWeaver. It works now, but support is supposed to be getting better in Zope 2.3
cheers,
Chris
Hello all. Thanks to those who gave me feedback in terms of what tools they use to do Zope work. What I've gathered is that, while it is possible to do "remote editing" of certain objects like DTML and SQL methods, many Zope objects cannot be edited this way and must be done over the web. I need to have source code readable on the filesystem independent of a Zope server, so that I can do things like CVS them, use any editor on them, grep them, etc. It seems that my only choice is to write products in Python itself, instead of using the web interface of Zope, which is one of the cool features of Zope. This is unfortunate. If only Zope supports a "filesystem-natural" mapping for its entire object model, this would be very cool indeed. Thanks. Gerald.
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