fantasai wrote:
> Are you saying that FTP and <textarea> form inputs present for these others
> a higher barrier to entry than CVS?
As someone who once had to extensively use Zope for development of a
Zope-based web interface, I must say that this statement is precisely
true. Briefly:
1) The FTP interface is clunky and much harder to use than CVS since
you have to keep cd-ing to the right directory.
2) Attempting to circumvent this by keeping the FTP connection open as
you edit so you can periodically checkpoint your document fail
because Zope is very agressive about closing the FTP connection.
3) Typing anything longer than about 5 lines of text in a <textarea>
and keeping track of what's going on is quite difficult. Editing an
existing document, as opposed to creating a new one is well-nigh
impossible. If I were to use <textarea>s to edit documentation, I
would need to basically copy all the text in the <textarea> to a
real editor, edit, copy it back, then submit. And hope that all
that works without losing data (by no means guaranteed, in my
experience with <textarea>s). Note that once I am at the "edit it
in my text editor" point, checking it into CVS requires pressing 2
keys, entering a checkin comment for the changelog, and pressing a
third key. This is much, much simpler and less error-prone than the
<textarea> approach.
