[Zope] Editing via FTP

[Thomas B. Passin]

[Dieter Maurer]

> e.frerich@nord-com.net writes:
>  > Hi, I'm using jedit 3.2.2 to edit files via FTP. With DTML 
>  > Documents everything goes fine. But if I edit Python files or Z SQL 
>  > Methods and store the files back into Zope they change to DTML 
>  > Documents.  
> Chris already pointed you to the "PUT_factory".
> 
> Apparently, your FTP editor has an additional problem:
> 
>   It seems to rename the object being edited, store the new
>   object and then delete the renamed one.
> 
>   That is very bad, as the FTP editable content is only part of
>   the Zope objects.
>   The approach above loses all other aspects of the object:
>   properties, history, security settings, ...
> 
> See whether you can configure your FTP client not to rename the object
> but modify it in place. Otherwise, you probably should look for
> an alternative that can be configured that way.
> 

EditPlus seems to handle them right, if you are on Windows.

Tom P