What is Deployment? What is Development?

Deployment

Deployment is the process of creating a zope instance. A zope instance is a zope webserver serving one or more sites.

Development

Development is the process of creating a python package which can be used to extend zope functionality. These zope packages are the building blocks you use to create your web applications under your zope instance.

It is common to have several development packages while you're working in your deployment.