I would not bet on that witout MUCH testing. I have been developing huge AutoCAD aplications for 15 years. And DXF (as the text transfer format is called) has become problematic. What I am doing now is creating an dbengine that stores files outside of zope and keeps trak of revisions. But the product is far from redy. Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerome Alet" <alet@unice.fr> To: "Mike Renfro" <renfro@tntech.edu> Cc: "Montagne, Michael" <montagne@BOORA.com>; <zope@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [Zope] Project FTP Site
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Mike Renfro wrote:
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 02:17:57PM -0700, Montagne, Michael wrote:
I need to create a project site for an archiectural office. The primary purpose is File Transfer. Each firm participating in the project will have a folder to upload files to. They may also download from the other folders, but not upload. The files are primarily AutoCad drawings.
If there will be lots of changes to the drawings, you might want to avoid storing them in a regular ZODB, unless you need the ability to roll back to previous versions of the drawings. Using LocalFS or
I was asked to create almost the same application by an architectural office one day, unfortunately this didn't happen.
However I suggest you to think about saving your drawings in CVS, because AFAIK (AIDKAL - and I don't know a lot) AutoCAD can save it's drawings in a text format. This way you'd be able to save the complete history of changes to each drawing, even with comments about each change, while at the same time not wasting disk space.
I hadn't the time to test it but I suppose it should work just fine.
bye,
Jerome Alet
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