Plone NGO Mailing List Christian Aid go for Microsoft over OpenSource

[Martin Aspeli]

Raphael Ritz wrote:
> 
> Ungerleider, Jack schrieb:
> 
> [..]
> 
>> 
>> Then main issue is conflict resolution. If that can be worked out so
>> that no content is lost that would be a killer option. Of course since
>> we're talk low speed connections in most cases it would work even better
>> if some sort of delta concept could be worked out to only send the
>> changes. This could be a side benefit of the change history mechanism. 
>> 
>> I don't know enough about Zope internals to know if this is even
>> feasable. 
> 
> Not sure whether this is relevant in this context:
> I've been day-dreaming with a college to use a Subversion
> repository as a storage backend for some (text based) content
> types but never even started implementing this.
> 
> What I did intead was writing a custom field type that kind of
> gets its default from a subversion repository (or some other web site)
> but can be customized later (but no writing back; my usecase at the
> time was to provide some default content for a help section on all
> of our sites that can easily be kept in sync but at the same time
> can easily be customized at a site if need be). Unfortunately this
> was never finished (and therefore never deployed) but the code still
> lives in ATExtensions
> 
>    http://svn.plone.org/view/archetypes/ATExtensions/trunk/
> 
> (look for everythingthat's related to 'remotetext')
> 
> I think the main message here is: if you need to deal with
> versioning/branching/merging/conflict resolution etc use
> a tool that does this already instead of reinventing the wheel.
> I don't see why this shouldn't be possible for Plone content
> as well.
> 

Kapil has some very cool code that makes Subversion repositories look nicer
in Python code. He showed some examples or basically running a small CMS in
Zope 3 where content was stored in svn. The code is in the objectrealms
repo.

Martin

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