[Zope3-Users] need guidance

[Brad Allen]

Chris McDonough wrote:
>>Here is another question. Suppose I'm working with a team of 
>>developers. Should we each set up our own separate Zope3 instance, 
>>and do SVN checkouts into our own separate, local /lib/python 
>>directories inside the instance? How then would we merge any 
>>changes done in the ZODB? On the other hand, having all team 
>>members try to share a single Zope 3 instance seems unworkable...
>
>I wrote a short treatise on this subject at 
>http://www.plope.com/Members/chrism/zope_collab/view that you may 
>want to take a look at.
>It's written with Zope 2 in mind but the issues and mechanics remain the same.

Ok, so this kind of discussion makes me wonder how much I can do 
without ZODB, or at least whether I can just use the ZODB files like 
any other binary files in the SVN repository. Having to write scripts 
to regenerate them sounds like a lot of ass-ache. Is there any reason 
why I can't just check in those data.fs files into SVN along with my 
Python packages, so that other team members can check them out into 
their respective Zope instances?