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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

A few more bits on your questions...

John Howe wrote:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > 1) Everything seems to be placed in a giant object database
> >         Zope-Instance\var\Data.fs
> >    thats the page templates, scripts, and our actual data.
>
>
> http://zope.org/Members/shh/ExtFile

Yep, and there are some other products that offer other storage options 
- one for storing zope objects in a SQL DB, no less (how twisted is 
that... ;-)

And of course Zope Enterprise Objects for scaling/distributing the 
object DB (and not a monolithic file either, afaik).

> > 2) All work needs to be done via the web interface.

> There is an extension called ZShell @
> http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/ZShell/action_Presentation

WebDAV is supported as well, so you can use any editor you like that 
supports WebDAV.


> > 3) It does not (by default) work through the web server, instead
> > creating its own server with a different port.
>
> or run as a cgi ( fastcgi )

It plays nice behind apache, at least on John H.'s setup for me.

> > 3) I have 1000 photos to upload. Can I automate the process?
> > I'm going to get very board (and give up) if I need to use a
> > file upload 1000 times.

> See ExtFile above

Absolutely.  Anything that can be done via the ZMI (the TTW interface) 
can be done programmatically.  So can stuff that can't be done through 
the ZMI.

> > 4) What if the database gets corrupted? With a monolithic file we could
> > be in danger of loosing everything.
>
>
> The same could be said for mysql, as the db is stored in flat files per
> table/index generally. Or Oracle loosing it's control file. This is part
> of disaster recovery procedures.

Exactly - this is an infrastructure/backup/recovery issue, not a dev 
platform issue.
Nice try though ;-)

 >>There may be stuff which at first seems to be easy using zope, but could
> > have unforsean consequences.

I cannot think of any dev platform in existence that I could not apply 
that statement to.  There's always what we don't know we don't know, 
regardless of platform.



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