gabor wrote at 2005-6-20 08:35 +0200: > ... >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...
This is possible as long you have a strict separation between content (created on the life server) and infrastructure (created in the develoment system). Configuration may be partly controlled in the life and partly in the development system. In this case, you need again a strict separation between these worlds. If this separation respects object boundaries (i.e. no updatable object contains both life and development controlled parts), then you can use Zope's export/import mechanism for the synchronization. The use of "export/import" can be automated as demonstrated by "ZSyncer" (others already suggested this solution). "ZSyncer" integrates a local export and the corresponding remote import in a single Web transaction. However, knowing your application, you can integrate such exports and imports for all your development controlled objects. If the separation crosses object boundaries, you cannot use export/import (as it would vipe out the life controlled parts of the object). We extended the basic "ZSyncer" mechanism to also synchronize partial objects. It essentially works by defining "_zsyncer__getstate__" and "_zsyncer__setstate__" methods that extract and import partial content. @Paul: let me know if you are interested in this ZSyncer extension. -- Dieter _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )