[pmwiki-users] backend considerations

[Dominique Faure]

2006/1/9, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com>:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2006 at 02:38:41PM -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
> > Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > >>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.
>
> All changes in PmWiki are serialized by date and time,
> thus timestamps can be used as version markers (similar
> to subversion's revision numbering system, which is
> linear for the entire repository).
>
> With that in mind, there's a variety of ways to implement
> tagging; even a simple list of tags<->timestamps (held
> in a wiki page) would be sufficient.
>
That was in fact the kind of things I was expecting from using
existing version control systems. Anyway, current PmWiki history is
quite efficient but this could provide a nice set of cookbook recipe.
;-)

Dom