[Zope] ZCatalog'ing a Web Site

[Michel Pelletier]

Jeff Rush wrote:
> 
> Well, I finally recreated the SiteIndex object + ExternalMethods that
> reproduces the web page:
>       http://www.zope.org/SiteIndex/newitems.html
> and it suddenly dawned on me -- such an index is only as up to
> date as the last time a reindex was done manually, since many of
> Zope's basic objects are not ZCatalogAware (methods, docs..).
> 
> So how is the zope.org site managed?  Do you run a cron
> job nightly to reindex the entire site?  That'd be quite a load
> especially on any site with gbytes of objects.  Hmm...

The objects index/re-index/un-index themselves if they are created,
edited, or destroyed.  Thus, ZCatalog is used programatically.

-Michel