ExternalFile 0.8 Released (Stable)

This is the second public release of our ExternalFile product.

Why not simply use ExtFile? Because ExternalFile supports pointing to a file "in situ" like a symbolic link, rather than copying it into some central repository directory.

This may not seem like a big deal, until you consider that those files might be stored in a revision control system like CVS. ExternalFile gives you the ability to create a Zope object that points to a file in, for example, a CVS sandbox for its content.

This new release adds "workalike" capabilities. ExternalFile can now behave like any of the following:

DTMLDocument
DTMLMethod
Image

ExternalFile is usable by itself. It is also the base class for CVSFile, to be released shortly.