[Zope-DB] Help request from a non-developer

[Jens Vagelpohl]

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On 14 Apr 2006, at 17:35, Christophe Appell wrote:
> My thought was then that I could point both the production server and
> the test server at that DB server. I take it this isn't easy to
> achieve ?

There is no problem setting that up, but it is plain *bad bad  
practice*! Do not do this unless you want to risk corrupting  
production data by experimenting and developing on the development  
system.


>> and you have found the fatal flaw with Zope:
>> it is really hard to separate programming/configuration from the site
>> data. Those two things are intertwined in a single binary file, the
>> ZODB and things that are easy to do from the admin interface (2  
>> second
>> changes) take a long time to script.

I'm not sure where that opinion comes from. It seems you never  
considered any development paradigm Zope offers beyond the barebones  
through-the-web style which is less and less used by Zope developers.



> It was my understanding though that you can use an external DB in
> conjunction with the ZoDB, wouldn't it be possible to put my
> client-entered data (form responses mostly) on this external DB ?

Yes.

jens

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