Alex Verstraeten writes:

I'm on the long quest to find a nice way to work with zope. the alternatives are webdav, ftp and the built-in web management screens

WebDAV and FTP has the same problems: no syntax checking support on 'save' , no versioning support, no way to create a non dtml-document object, not all editors have built-in ftp support, so you have to mount ftp as a filesystem or use some tools to handle that.. Recently, someone reported improved error messages for "FTP" save (he put his patch into the Collector). As I understood the announcement, syntax is checked and problems reported the same way as for ZMI.

There is a proposal how non-standard object types can be created. I think, there is even an implementation around. Saw recently something in a mailing list (think "zope-dev"). Versions are implemented by cookies. FTP and WebDAV do not support cookies, but it would not be difficult to use the built-in product SiteAccess (more precisely, its AccessRule) to map folders to cookies; e.g. /Version/<version>/<url> would set the cookie for <version> and then access <url>. This way, it could be used easily be FTP. I am not sure about WebDAV, as it uses the source port and I am not sure whether AccessRules are executed for these traversals. But I think, there is a good chance. Dieter