[Zope] zope as staging server

Andreas Kostyrka andreas@mtg.co.at
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 20:18:10 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Hannu Krosing wrote:

> "Thaxter, Jason M." wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > First of all, Zope is fantastic.  However, in order to adapt it for my
> > immediate task, I need to:
> > 
> >         1)  Make a prettier, easier interface for my userland (and for the
> > suits, who love pretty graf-x)
> >         2)  Use Zope on the staging server only, and add a method to publish
> > objects via arbitrary means
> >                 (flat HTML, ftp, scp, rsync, whatever)
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure #1 is a fairly simple matter of designing my own pages that
> > call the various zope management methods.  And #2 seems doable, but I'm not
> > sure enough of the internal architecture of
> > Zope to do this (nor have I programmed in Python before, tho it looks to be
> > fairly obvious 00 stuff).
> > 
> > Should I write an external method for this?  I suppose the strategy would be
> > to add properties to my Zope objects to hold info regarding the destination
> > of the flat HTML, and then write a method to support them.
> 
> Why not just design your pages without infinite recursion and then just 
> wget them for publishing ?
And don't forget to use ids with an extension representing the right type.
So use index.html, test.gif and test.jpg :)

Andreas
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