[pmwiki-users] backend considerations
christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 23:06:13 CST 2006
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, 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.
Changesets would be very nice, but I think 'tags' or 'datesets' would
satisfy most users. Neither requires CVS or Subversion as backend I think.
/C
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