[Zope] content / code separation

[Chris McDonough]

Not entirely on-topic, but related: 

http://www.plope.com/Members/chrism/zope_collab

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:19, Paul Winkler wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 01:14:50PM -0800, Declan Shanaghy wrote:
> > Something is puzzling me about the way zope is designed.
> > 
> > With FileStorage, or DirectoryStorage code and member content is all
> > stored in the same place.
> > 
> > How does one achieve separtion of the code from the content in order to
> > facilitate easy upgrade of code?
> > 
> > Basically i want to do is take the Members folder out of my CMF site
> > and store it somewhere else, so i can do a sitewide update of the code
> > in my CMF site by copying over a new Data.fs or a new DirectoryStorage
> > heirarchy  and the Members folder will be unaffected.
> 
> 3 suggestions:
> 
> - Don't Do That.  Upgrade "in place". This is usually possible
>   depending on what your upgrade consists of.
> 
> - Export the Member folder before upgrade, then import afterward.
> 
> - Use mounted storages. Google for DBTab.