[Zope] Question: Files and history

[Dieter Maurer]

Daniel Talas wrote at 2003-1-4 01:47 -0500:
 > I know this has been asked before, but I need a definite answer before
 > we can pick ZOPE as our platform of choice for a project.
 > 
 > One of the major requirements is to be able to view history for files
 > (docs, images, etc), and be able to view the actual file @ any point
 > in the history.  Basically, we need "history" functionality that ZOPE currently
 > provides for such objects as Scripts, DTML Methods, etc.
Note that Zope provides few control over the deletion of old
versions/histories.

  When you need history records arbitrary long (for a single instance),
  then you can never pack the ZODB and never get rid of any
  old version.

When this is not a problem for you, then the basic functions
(to access an objects history) are available for any object.
However, visualization of the differences can easily been
implemented for a small set of specialized objects.


Dieter