[Product-Developers] Plone Crash Course

[Dylan Jay]

I think this whole thread raises a big documentation issue.
How is it that this question can still be asked? Where can we inject  
documentation so there's no question that serious develop show be done  
in the filesystem?

I know in the early days many developer friends being put off by Plone/ 
Zope being about unsource controlled, TTW code and I thought we'd  
shaken that image :(

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On 14/03/2011, at 10:06 PM, Maurits van Rees wrote:

> Op 13-03-11 21:02, raharley schreef:
>> Thanks for your replies. I will check those out. Am I correct in  
>> what I said
>> about the ZMI, that it should be avoided for Plone development in  
>> favour of
>> the filesystem? Or is the filesystem advantage negated if no source  
>> code
>> versioning system is required?
>
> Development of new features should indeed NOT be done in the ZMI.  
> Development should be done on the file system.  A versioning system  
> for your source code is highly recommended, but not required.
>
> When your source code is on a file system:
>
> - you can easily share your code with others
>
> - you can use version control
>
> - you can see which code you actually made, instead of guessing that  
> it was just a few templates in the portal skins custom map and  
> forgetting some scripts you added in the root, or changes you made  
> in the portal_css
>
> - you can test a new version of the code on your development machine  
> without needing a copy of the (possibly big) Data.fs
>
> For more documentation resources I would say browse through http://plone.org/documentation 
>  and see which documentation fits your needs best.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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> Maurits van Rees
> Web App Programmer at Zest Software: http://zestsoftware.nl
> Personal website: http://maurits.vanrees.org/
>
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