[Zope] CVS/VSS - how are others doing it?

[Meilicke, Scott]

Never mind about the skins comment, it's better to use my own skin, copy the
file(s) I want to modify into my skin, and put my skin ahead of the default
in the skin tool.  My head wasn't screwed on right for a minute...

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Meilicke, Scott 
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:59 AM
To: 'Chris Withers'; Meilicke, Scott
Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
Subject: RE: [Zope] CVS/VSS - how are others doing it?


OK, I think I can live with that.  A few more questions/thoughts:

If I wanted to use a custom header in a subfolder, I could either use a
different name, or use a redirect.  i.e. all my pages within the subfolder
call standard_html_header, and that in turn is a method within the subfolder
that calls subfolder_html_header within the skin(s), similar in concept to
how Zwiki redirects index_html to FrontPage.  Valid so far?  Is it
feasible/wise to use a different skin for each subfolder I want to do this
with instead?

When modifying an existing file within a skin:  I would use VSS/CVS to make
the modification.  When a new version of the CMF comes out, I do a diff
between what I have and what is in the new CMF, and then deal with file
merging - standard stuff.

Regarding properties within the database, that shouldn't be a problem -
that's how it's done with RDBMs anyway...

Thanks Chris,

Scott

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Withers [mailto:chrisw@nipltd.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 9:30 AM
To: Meilicke, Scott
Cc: 'zope@zope.org'
Subject: Re: [Zope] CVS/VSS - how are others doing it?


"Meilicke, Scott" wrote:
> 
> So the idea is to keep skins on the file system, and you can then do check
> in/out from there.  So all of your "code" is kept within skins?  

Yup

> But what
> about using custom files like header and footers for a specific section of
> the site?  

That's still 'code' and so should be in a skin...

> Also, I have used properties of folders in the site to handle
> 'variables'.  What are the best practices in that case?

Backup your storage ;-)

cheers,

Chris