\begin{Rev Simon Rumble}
> On Fri 28 Sep, Jeff Waugh made the following spurious claims:
> > What was missing from CVS that prompted your question?
>
> A user interface that the admin, sales and marketing staff can use?
i'll let others answer that one.
if everything else is unsuitable, surely after a bit of hacking with
(perl's) VCS::CVS, it shouldn't be too hard to have a customised web
interface.
> Also document management is different to source management. It also
> includes metadata management, searching and tracking. Not sure if
> this person needs all that though.
use the wv-tools to convert a word doc to text (better would be html).
same with pdf (pdftotext from xpdf) and others. if it has textual content,
presumably there's a (unix) tool for getting the text out.
then run a web search engine over the text/html.
for word and pdf, you can similarly index the "document info" using pdfinfo
and whatever the wv tool is.
these indexes could easily be built from a cron job or cvs-triggered
command and a simple Makefile, and wouldn't need explicit help from the
user.
what other "metadata" did you have in mind?
i'm not quite sure what "tracking" involves, but cvs has a "watchers"
mechanism to do that sort of thing for source code.
i presume other version control tools have similar mechanisms
(eg: aegis has a "file activity" report)
(there are no new problems. just (apparently) new combinations)
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