[Zope-ZEO] Advice

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:58:59 +0100


On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 08:23:40 -0400, Greg Ward
<gward@mems-exchange.org> wrote:

>Personally, my gripes with Zope boil down to one fundamental
>disagreement:
>
>    code != data
>
>IOW, I don't think my source code -- specifically, DTML methods and
>documents, but also all the other stuff that make up a Zope web
>application -- should be put into a big opaque database.  Source code
>belongs in the filesystem, because stuff in the filesystem can be:
>  * version-controlled (RCS/CVS)
>  * grep'ed
>  * edited with a real editor
>  * rsync'd

Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org> posted similar comments
about Zope on comp.lang.python, but later agreed that it wasnt a real
problem.
<http://x57.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=666073172&CONTEXT=969540266.1343029256&hitnum=16>
<http://www.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/dnquery.xp?ST=PS&svcclass=dnyr&defaultOp=&DBS=&LNG=&subjects=&authors=&fromdate=&todate=&showsort=&maxhits=&groups=comp.lang.python&QRY=3d3djk6jz2.fsf@kronos.cnri.reston.va.us&x=28&y=3>


The only problem here that I perceive to be real is related to
learning curve (and dejanews' ugly urls ;-)


Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com