[Zope] How to get the "pure" source of a pagetemplate back ?

[Kevin Littlejohn]

We've been using cvs, and a short script as part of the product that
refreshes the tal pages from disk.  So we cvs checkout the product, and
all our tal pages are in the "/ptl" directory in there.  We work on the
tal in dreamweaver/vim/whatever the person in question prefers, check in
the working copies (and we can all run our own Zopes to test locally/run
unit tests, where appropriate), then through the management screen hit a
"refresh TAL" button we've added to the instances of the product in
question.  That runs a method that walks through the filesystem deleting
whatever it finds in Zope that matches and loading the new content in
instead.

Works best for product development, as opposed to general site
development, although I'm sure you could do something akin to that for
general devel, using a custom "reloader" object or something.  Means we
have the product under cvs where it rightfully belongs, and we can
regenerate fsck-ups at a moment's notice.  Also makes rolling out copies
to new machines a lot easier...

KevinL

On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 19:18, John Adams wrote:
> On Tue, 14 May 2002, John Schinnerer wrote:
> 
> > --- John Adams <jadams@inktomi.com> wrote:
> > > To add to this question, is there any way (or could a way be hacked
> > > together) to allow editing of files on the command line instead of
> > > through the web?
> >
> > Not sure what you mean by 'on the command line'...
> 
> Oh, I mean something like:
> 
> 
> checkoutzopepage /some/location/ontheserver/foo.py > foo.py
> 
> and then
> 
> checkinzopepage foo.py /some/location/ontheserver/foo.py
> 
> > > It'd be nice to check pages out, edit pages in emacs,  and
> > > check them back in a la CVS.
> >
> > There's no source control built in, but you can always edit in your
> > favorite editor and upload to zope using the File upload form (and
> > download using the 'View or Download current text' link just above the
> > upload form).
> 
> Yeah, but it's very frustrating to do that. You have to retype (and
> relocate) the file everytime.
> 
> > I suppose combining this with using a version would be a sort of kludgy
> > source control system...
> 
> Hmm, well, I thought that Zope had a version control system built in
> anyhow -- it saves every change, which are available when you look at the
> page in the editor.
> 
> -john
> 
> 
> 
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