Hello gurus - please forgive me if I've posted this question to the wrong
Mailing List.
I'm a software developer who has never customized or even used Plone before (I
have
implemented and customized other web-based collaboration suites and content
management
apps). I have a client who wants to implement a Content Management Intranet
using Plone.
The client's requirements will necessitate considerable customization of Plone,
including
custom lists, tracking and scheduling of sales lead calls, and extending Plone
with add-on
products for calendar management, at minimum.
Before committing to taking this project on, I need to resolve a significant
concern:
The production environment that this Plone site will be deployed to is a Mac OS
X
environment. I am a PC/Windows XP based developer, and do not have ready access
to a Mac
environment suitable for development. In order to proceed, I need to determine
whether a
highly customized Plone site can be developed in a Win/XP environment, and then
easily
deployed to a Mac OS X environment.
Searching the plone.org documentation, I found only this 1 applicable article,
which
implies that a simple Export of a Plone site from the development environment,
and an
Import of the resulting .zexp file in the production environment, will do the
trick:
http://plone.org/documentation/how-to/move-site/
Assuming the Win/XP development environment and the Mac OS X environment have
the exact
same version of Plone installed, will this Export / Import method work in
transferring the
customized Plone site?
Any assistance, assurance or advice that anyone can offer would be greatly
appreciated.
- Jim
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