[Zope-dev] Re: [Zope-ZEO] Advice

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Wed, 20 Sep 2000 15:26:47 -0700


> > One of the reasons our group is moving away from Zope is that it has
> > very poor support (if any) for the development/staging/live model.  We
> > like this model.  We think it's a good thing.  But sync'ing code across
> > multiple Zope installations is a royal PITA.
>
> I'd like to hear more about the problems you've had and how
> you overcome them in a different system.
>
> > And no, versions are *not* the answer.
>
> Well, they are a pretty good answer for lots of applications
> in my experience.

Version can work for small changes, but they certainly dont for large
numbers of changes across lots of objects. And since the catalog is a key
component for our site, its a real problem.