[pmwiki-users] backend considerations

[Chris Cox]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 11:32:39AM -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
>>Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>>On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 05:54:56PM +0100, Dominique Faure wrote:
>>>>For now, PmWiki's backend is a thin layer upon basic (flat-)file
>>>>functions, and I was wondering if the data history management
>>>>shouldn't in fact being handled at this stage...
>>>>...in order to allow the use of existing versioning tools.
>>>I can think of a lot of reasons why this would be more expensive to
>>>implement and maintain...  what would we gain from it?
>>The change history mechansim works quite well for single
>>pages.  Might be nice I guess in some cases to have the
>>idea of changesets.
>>
>>Not saying I need the feature, just thinking out loud.
> 
> Yes, site-wide rollback might be a good feature, but we can 
> certainly implement that as a relatively simple recipe without 
> needing a full subversion installation.  

Of course... most certainly (well I think... we'd have to
store <persistently> some kind of tag so changes could
be associated somehow.