[Zope] - Zope, source, CVS

[Jim Fulton]

Kent Polk wrote:
> 
> Hi shuntley (shuntley), in <862566D3.005E046B.00@ssaus1.notes.ssax.com> on Dec 7 you wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to evaluate content management systems with an eye toward
> > whether they can be adapted to version control of code.  All code version
> 
> And other types of documents as well, I hope. :^)
> 
> > control packages currently extant are severly lacking to one degree or
> > another, and it seems from my shallow knowledge that the web content
> > providers are solving the problems the code developers are content to put
> > up with (please observe that CVS is still the cutting edge.  Gag.).
> >
> > Apparently Zope supports object versioning.  The Zope page mentions that
> > the staff is about to go through the horror of setting up a public CVS
> > tree.  So allow me to ask this question:
> >
> > IS IT POSSIBLE TO USE ZOPE TO STORE AND SERVE ITS OWN SOURCE?
> 
> Storing and serving is trivial.
> 
> I'll see if I can stick my foot in my mouth first. Brian or Jim
> can confirm if it's firmly seated there...  The versioning that
> Zope supports is more related to a transaction model than to
> version *control* of documents.

Exactly, and to supporing undo (and possibly time travel).

Jim

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