[pmwiki-users] backend considerations

[Chris Cox]

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.