[Zope] developing with zmi: how to move a patch from data from devel to live?

2005-06-20 Thread gabor
hi, my problem is the following... imagine that you develop something for the customer using zope. while developing you use the ZMI a lot... to set some settings, to create python scripts and so on. you do this on the 'devel' server. then you deliver the solution to the customer (to the

Re: [Zope] developing with zmi: how to move a patch from data from devel to live?

2005-06-20 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
On 20 Jun 2005, at 07:35, gabor wrote: now you create the fix/improvement on the devel server. but now how do you move the improvement/fix to the live server? you cannot just copy the data.fs over. the customer already has some content/data in it... one way seems to be to not use the ZMI

Re: [Zope] developing with zmi: how to move a patch from data from devel to live?

2005-06-20 Thread gabor
Jens Vagelpohl wrote: On 20 Jun 2005, at 07:35, gabor wrote: now you create the fix/improvement on the devel server. but now how do you move the improvement/fix to the live server? you cannot just copy the data.fs over. the customer already has some content/data in it... one way seems

Re: [Zope] developing with zmi: how to move a patch from data from devel to live?

2005-06-20 Thread Jens Vagelpohl
On 20 Jun 2005, at 10:16, gabor wrote: well, or let me ask the question a different way: if i should not use the ZMI, then why is it there? The ZMI is great for maintenance tasks, but not great for software development. You already ran into the first issue, replicating changes to other