[Zope] Tools used for programming Zope

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Thursday 18 January 2001, at 18 h 40, the keyboard of Gerald Gutierrez 
<pozix@home.com> wrote:

> Frankly, I'm a little surprised that this isn't a problem for more people, 
> given the drawbacks of having to give up many of the existing tools, having 
> the application server only be able to export in a proprietary format, and 
> being bound to the application server for so many development-related 
> tasks. It's impossible to do a simple grep through the code, for example ...

I agree it is one of the MAIN problems with Zope. You have my support. A good way to have a read-write (at least a readonly) view of the ZODB would change things a lot.