* Fred Wilson Horch (fhorch@ecoaccess.org) [010312 10:27]:
Another serialized format that all Zope objects support is the XML interface, which exposes all the objects' guts. With XML-RPC I envisioned being able to improve on the FTP interface by adding things like md5 checksums to determine if the local and remote objects are in synch. I haven't looked too deeply, but presumably via XML you could support all of the management functionality that is currently provided by the HTML management interface. So you could build a client with a rich feature set for managing Zope objects.
An idea might be to just impliment the rsync protocol, which does a lot of this already.
Thats a really good idea, to add rsync support, but the much better way to have verson control would be having release and versions (and maybe later branches). Thats a problem with the current fs, a cvs like version expanding would be great, like <dtml-meta> <version>3</><revision>2</><release>4</> <changelog> Bugfix refererred to Bugreport #4711. </changelog> </dtml-meta> The user would be the user who had logged in, of course. The only problem of ftp is that it is not able to manage versions, I would suggest (a toggleable mode) to have a folder for each document where the versions would lie into as files (representation) for ftp. yours sincerely, Bijan Fathi