[Silva-general] Re: SilvaNews-1.2 to SilvaNewsNetwork-2.0.1

[Guido Wesdorp]

Dav Clark wrote:
> Just wanted to follow up on Marc's message - I am the guy who had  
> trouble with SilvaNewsNetwork-2.0(.0) and still have the problem  
> described by me and by Marc with SNN 2.0.1.
> 
I'll investigate the problem this week somewhere, it looks like I've 
forgotten to write some update code (although that would be somewhat 
strange, because I've successfully upgraded some older databases myself, 
but it may be that those were in a different state than yours) and will 
keep you and Marc up-to-date on the progress. Would you (and Marc) mind 
to do a beta test before I do a new release so we can make sure the 
problem is really gone?

> I guess this qualifies for the bug tracker, but was going to try to  do 
> a bit more spelunking first.
> 
Let's try to fix it first. ;)

> (and if anyone wants to hit me off-list about their preferred method  
> [or reference to such] of inspecting the zope DB, and silva objects  in 
> particular, I'd love to hear.  Right now, I'm just playing with  python 
> scripts through the ZMI.  "Best Practices" kinds of things  would also 
> be great.).
> 
I would suggest to avoid using Python scripts as much as possible. 
Although they are a nice quick'n'dirty way to get things done, they're 
slow, hard to maintain, and the restrictions on the code are really 
annoying at times. The boilerplate of Product (fs) code is also 
annoying, but once you have a template somewhere you'll find it's way 
nicer to develop on the filesystem, and things like dir() will just work 
(don't expect reading results to be easy though, with acquisition and 
all ;).

Cheers,

Guido