GenericSetup mini-tutorial published
GenericSetup is a framework to describe the configuration of a Zope site as a set of XML files (and sometimes other associated files). It can import profiles, which may create objects or change their configuration, and export profiles, which makes a snapshot of the configuration and writes it to a set of XML files.
GenericSetup provides a tool that can store snapshots of a configuration in the ZODB itself, where it can be examined and even modified. It can also do diffs between two snapshots, which is very useful to find out what changed in a configuration (it's a good idea to take a full snapshot anytime some significant changes are made to the configuration).
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