On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 11:00:11AM -0500, Chris Kratz wrote: > > Now, if using svn for source control is the only reason he was using > > APE, surely you'd agree that DirecotyViews are a more appropriate method? > > > > cheers, > > > > Chris > > Yes, you are more or less correct. The primary reason we went to APE was > after having tried the nightmares of the various zope cvs products which just > seemed to be able to tie themselves into knots after awhile. APElib allowed > us to persist all objects as plain text files on the file system so that > normal file system tools can be used for development. After we went to APE > we moved from CVS to subversion. Now most of us develop using a text editor > directly modifying our zope objects. We have the refresh interval dialed > down to 1s on our dev boxes and 5-10 minutes on the live servers. This > allows us to easily shoehorn minor patches (fix - commit - update server) > without any service interruption on the live server. So, our reasons for > using Apelib were... > > 1. Allow use of source control (branching, diffs, revision history, etc) on > all content types as plain text files, not python pickles. > 2. Allow editing of zope objects (DTML, ZPT, ZSQL, py script) externally in > appropriate editor. > 3. Allow us to quickly push out minor patches to running servers. > 4. A distant final item was using TTW editing to do minor tweaks.
DirectoryViews would mean you'd lose #4. Otherwise, I think they'd work for you and it's a much simpler solution than ape. Also, if you have any persistent objects for which there isn't an existing FSObject-derived version, you'd have to write one. Another issue is that AFAIK there's no way to control the refresh interval of FSObject subclasses. I guess you could monkeypatch FSObject._updateFromFS. You might want to do that anyway so you don't have to run your production servers in debug mode. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - [email protected] 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 )
