Stirling, are you talking about a backend like Subversion? Ben
On 6/1/07, Stirling Westrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Yesterday a friend was asking me how hard it would be to use a distributed > source control system like monotone or mercurial as a storage backend to > PmWiki. > > We've been talking about doing some collaborative work and tracking it via > PmWiki. The thing is, he would like to have an automatically-updated copy of > the wiki that he can work with when offline. > > Now I know that there have been several other backend storage projects for > PmWiki, so I told him that I thought it was possible. The thing is, I have no > idea how much work is involved, or even exactly what one would need to change. > > My first impression is that one merely has to replace the pagestore class with > another one, but I doubt that its that simple. One problem I can imagine, for > instance, is that we might want to use the SCS's diff algorithm rather than > the default PmWiki one when generating a history. That history may not end up > saved inside the individual files as a result. I'm not really sure what > ramification that may have. > > So, I'm interested in the experiences of folks who have done this sort of > operation on PmWiki before, how hard it was, and what gotchas they > encountered. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFGYBdC5dZZEoPlyIURArYwAJwNbYYPn9n+8RXPP7hQhlruAJzj0QCgrFf4 > T2y31yesbDiLB4d3bzsZNzE= > =yuK7 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-devel mailing list > pmwiki-devel@pmichaud.com > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-devel > -- Ben Wilson "Words are the only thing which will last forever" Churchill _______________________________________________ pmwiki-devel mailing list pmwiki-devel@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-devel
