-----Original Message----- From: Art Hampton [mailto:arth@pacsg.css.mot.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 6:28 PM To: Michel Pelletier Cc: zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Versions and FTP access
How does versioning work with FTP access via ZServer? I have created a new version and it works very nicely, however, I can't get to my new version via ZServer--When I load a page in my editor via FTP, it's still the original version.
You cannot work in a version through FTP. There are no FTP semantics for entering or leaving or commiting or anything else like that. It's a protocol limitation.
That doesn't mean it can't be worked around by the Zope FTP server....
The FTP server could map: /zopever/myversionname to / in the "myversionname" version.
/zopever/myversionname/topdir would map to /topdir in myversionname
etc....
The CM tool we use (ClearCase) supports this kind of access scheme.
How would Zope know that you wanted to enter a version and that the FTP 'namespace' should be shifted to move the version to the root? The basic question then is how you 'enter' a version via FTP. Perhaps versions could be traversed through? I think this might introduce inconsitencies in logic dependant on absolute_url and the like.... -Michel