[Zope-CMF] [dev] tools as utilities

[Patrick Gerken]

On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
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> On 09/06/2012 01:37 AM, Lennart Regebro wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Tres Seaver
>> <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:
>>>> And if we don't want to support more than one site the ZODB,
>>>> there should be a warning of you try to do it, btw.
>>>
>>> I've got no problem with more than one CMF site in a single Zope
>>> instance;  I just don't want to promote .zexp as the way to migrate
>>> such sites (that is what GS is for, after all).
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>> I'm confused now. GenericSetup has never been able to reliably export
>> the content of a Plone site, to my knowledge. I'm sure we could make
>> that happen, of course, but is that really less work than
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> I have no idea what you man.  GS has been the *only* means I have used
> for migrating CMF / Plone based sites for going on years now:   I haven't
> used a .zexp export to do so in more than a decade (since well before GS
> was even released).

Wait, what?
Whenever I look into structure, there is only basic information, not
even the workflow states of the objects get exported.

What am I doing wrong?