Hello gurus - please forgive me if I've posted this
question to the wrong Mailing List.
I'm a software developer who has never customized or even
used Plone before (I have
implemented and customized other web-based collaboration
suites and content management
apps). I have a client who wants to implement a Content
Management Intranet using Plone.
The client's requirements will necessitate considerable
customization of Plone, including
custom lists, tracking and scheduling of sales lead calls,
and extending Plone with add-on
products for calendar management, at minimum.
Before committing to taking this project on, I need to
resolve a significant concern:
The production environment that this Plone site will be
deployed to is a Mac OS X
environment. I am a PC/Windows XP based developer, and do
not have ready access to a Mac
environment suitable for development. In order to proceed, I
need to determine whether a
highly customized Plone site can be developed in a Win/XP
environment, and then easily
deployed to a Mac OS X environment.
Searching the plone.org documentation, I found only this 1
applicable article, which
implies that a simple Export of a Plone site from the
development environment, and an
Import of the resulting .zexp file in the production
environment, will do the trick:
http
://plone.org/documentation/how-to/move-site/
Assuming the Win/XP development environment and the Mac OS X
environment have the exact
same version of Plone installed, will this Export / Import
method work in transferring the
customized Plone site?
Any assistance, assurance or advice that anyone can offer
would be greatly appreciated.
- Jim
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