[Zope] Can Zope Do....?

[Alan Snyder]

I installed plone yesterday and i'm plugging away at it. It's
confusing, like zope is, but powerful. Can anyone recommend a good
zope and/or plone book? Separate books are fine with me if one doesn't
do the job.


On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 20:34:14 +0100, Dieter Maurer <dieter at handshake.de> wrote:
> Alan Snyder wrote at 2004-12-2 12:05 -0500:
> > ...
> >1) I am creating all of these pages through the zope manager interface
> >which is great, but is it possible, and if so how, to do what I'm
> >doing here and update a client remotely through something like a CVS
> >or some pre-packaged zope update?
> 
> When you  use the CMF (or Plone which is build on top of CMF),
> then there is the "Filesystem Directory View".
> As its name suggests, it makes the content of a directory
> in the file system available as Zope objects.
> 
> We use it heavily to have all our infrastructure (templates, logic)
> in the filesystem, managed via CVS/SVN.
> 
> The CMF comes with other nice utilities as well: we make
> especially heavy use of the "ActionsTool" and the "SkinsTool".
> 
> You will like them, once you get acquainted...
> 
> --
> Dieter
>