[Zope] zope as staging server

[Hannu Krosing]

"Thaxter, Jason M." wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> First of all, Zope is fantastic.  However, in order to adapt it for my
> immediate task, I need to:
> 
>         1)  Make a prettier, easier interface for my userland (and for the
> suits, who love pretty graf-x)
>         2)  Use Zope on the staging server only, and add a method to publish
> objects via arbitrary means
>                 (flat HTML, ftp, scp, rsync, whatever)
> 
> I'm pretty sure #1 is a fairly simple matter of designing my own pages that
> call the various zope management methods.  And #2 seems doable, but I'm not
> sure enough of the internal architecture of
> Zope to do this (nor have I programmed in Python before, tho it looks to be
> fairly obvious 00 stuff).
> 
> Should I write an external method for this?  I suppose the strategy would be
> to add properties to my Zope objects to hold info regarding the destination
> of the flat HTML, and then write a method to support them.

Why not just design your pages without infinite recursion and then just 
wget them for publishing ?

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Hannu