[Zope] FYI: Latest gem appears in CVS

[Jimmie Houchin]

From someone who has lobbied for this feature and greatly looks forward
to using it...

Woohoo!!!

Thanks Jim.

Thanks Shane.

This is greatly appreciated.

Jimmie Houchin


> Paul Everitt paul@digicool.com on
> Sat, 20 May 2000 18:40:30 -0400 wrote:
> 
> Howdy folks.  As mentioned previously, a gem is ready to appear in CVS:
> mountable databases.
> 
> What are these?  I'll answer with a question.  Ever want to have your
> data segregated into multiple Data.fs files?  Ever want to have some of
> your object data in the regular FileStorage, some in a Berkeley storage
> for no undo, some in some mythical forthcoming RelationalStorage, etc.? 
> Or perhaps you want to segregate your data for other reasons.
> 
> This is mountable databases, and it's running on Zope.org right now. 
> We're doing it to have Wikis that don't get pack, to let us see
> historical information.  If you want to send thanks, send them to Jim
> Fulton and Shane Hathaway.
> 
> But how would we see the historical information, since Zope doesn't do
> CVS-like things?  Those of you on zope-checkins might have seen this
> today:
> 
> """
> Message: 4
> Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 12:07:08 -0400
> From: Jim Fulton <jim@digicool.com>
> To: zope-checkins@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope-Checkins] CVS: Zope2  - History.py:1.1 history.dtml:1.1
> historyCompare.dtml:1.1 ndiff.py:1.1 DTMLMethod.py:1.45
> 
> Update of /cvs-repository/Zope2/lib/python/OFS
> In directory
> korak.digicool.com:/projects/users/jim/Historical/lib/python/OFS
> 
> Modified Files:
>         DTMLMethod.py 
> Added Files:
>         History.py history.dtml historyCompare.dtml ndiff.py 
> Log Message:
> Added the ability to browse, compare, and revert to historical revisions
> for DTML methods and documents
> """
> 
> Sure enough, I updated my CVS and saw a "History" tab.  Fun stuff, and
> something that's been a long, long time request from the community.  Jim
> did this in his spare time, so he gets 100% of the credit.
> 
> --Paul