[Zope3-dev] Re: More thoughts on packaging

[Paul Winkler]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:58:37PM -0500, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> > OTOH, I've found the TTW configuration for zope 2 leads to maintenance
> > nightmares when you have multiple systems (e.g. dev, staging, and
(snip)
> I agree that's a problem.  I think that only means configurable tools need
> a clean serialization format, and we need tools for importing/exporting
> configurations.  We didn't know that (or we hadn't internalized it) when
> CMF was being created.  Fortunately, we know it now. :-)

Yeah, a lot of the pieces of the puzzle exist. We have zsync.
CMF for zope 2 has a decent filesystem representation of properties, 
implemented by FSPropertyManager. We could do something similar
for annotations and use zsync with it. It will rock :-) 

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