[ZODB-Dev] source control using ZODB versions?

[Michael Twomey]

Hi,
   This is also something I have been thinking about. I was wondering 
what would be involved in "layering" a versioning/branching (in the 
source control sense) system on top of the ZODB? Or better still 
integrating this in? This would make the ZODB a viable backend 
replacement for RCS/SCCS in tools like CVS/Aegis/subversion which in 
turn would expose the source under the source control to programs like 
Zope. Also I can see many Zope CMF style sites where 
versioning/branching would be very useful (in fact one of the movies on 
Zope.com features this doesn't it?)

Am I mad or is this a reasonable endeavour?

mick

Jim Fulton wrote:
> I recommend against using ZODB versions for anything other than
> long running transactions.
> 
> Jim
> 
> Brian Slesinsky wrote:
> 
>>Hi, I'm using StandaloneZODB to make something like a Wiki.  I was
>>thinking of using versions for source control, but there are some actions
>>that make sense in a source control system that I'm not sure how to do in
>>ZODB:
>>
>> - find out whether an object is currently checked out and if so,
>>by which user (which version)
>>
>> - find all the objects that the user has checked out (that were modified
>>in the user's version)
>>
>> - undo the checkout for one object (revert to what it was before being
>>modified in the version, without aborting the version).
>>
>>Are these things possible in ZODB?  Does it make sense to do this at the
>>ZODB level?
>>
>>Also, I can't seem to find a definitive API reference.  Does one exist?
>>
>>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Brian Slesinsky
>>
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