[Zope] Macromedia Contribute

[Tino Wildenhain]

Hi Paul,

--On Dienstag, 12. November 2002 09:28 +0000 Paul Browning 
<paul.browning@bristol.ac.uk> wrote:

>
> This got a mention on the cms list
> <http://www.macromedia.com/software/contribute/>
>
> I just gave the preview version a spin. It's a nice try.
> If you're not going to do TTW editing in the browser then
> this is the perhaps the next best thing for "occasional authors".
> There is drag-and-drop integration of Word and Excel.
>
> No support (yet) for secure protocols (just FTP) but
> I ran it against Webdrive pointing at a server over
> ssh and it worked fine.
>
> The real bummer is that it seems a non-starter with Zope.
> Contribute needs to create the directories _mm, _bak and _notes.
>
> Is there really no way round this? With Dreamwever you
> can switch the _notes thing off but I don't think this
> is an option with Contribute. Could a PUT_factory intervene?

This is the same work-around bullshit like Dreamwaver and
stuff uses. I solved this one time by faking the objects
when accessing them via ftp.

Regards
Tino