[Zope3-Users] need guidance

[Chris McDonough]

On Nov 29, 2005, at 10:29 PM, Duncan McGreggor wrote:
> Additionally, the ability to generate a new instance of a project  
> complete with a fresh-and-ready ZODB is of immense value when  
> working on a project with multiple developers or teams of  
> developers. Several times, we have saved literally days of work  
> taking advantage of this. I'm sure others that take even better  
> advantage of this have saved perhaps weeks.

Yes.  You could also just check in a generated database into CVS and  
use that with some of the same benefit but FWIW, I find the biggest  
value in being able to review this kind of setup code is that it  
serves as a kind of documentation as to *how* an iinitial database  
got created.  Also, setup code is often complex and subtle because  
it's "where the rubber meets the road" in a production  
configuration.  Being able to replicate it on demand with subtle  
changes (like port numbers and filenames) is valuable when you want  
to roll out a system into production.

- C