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bobban
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 Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 12:32 am Post subject: Version control software and OO |
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Is anyone able to tell me if there is a version control system that works with OO so that documents (and hopefully macros) can be diffed, merged, versioned etc..?
Thank you.
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Create a file and save it then File > Version will become active.
AFAIK, there is no separate software that deals with OOo file versioning. |
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bobban
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Thanks for that...looking around I have seen there is some initiatives to get something done on this front will be a great boost to the suite (especially if it can handle macros).
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9point9
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| JohnV wrote: | | Create a file and save it then File > Version will become active. |
I really don't trust versioning within a file. It has no protection against file damage.
| bobban wrote: | | looking around I have seen there is some initiatives to get something done on this front |
That's probably referring to some of the stuff I've done. The current working project is OOoSVN:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooosvn
It is largely only a proof of concept and is restricted to working on OOo on Unix systems. Hence it is being rewritten as a new project ODFSVN:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odfsvn
So not only am I the first person to have given a program a six letter abbreviation for a name, I'm also the only person to have done it twice!
ODFSVN is being written as a Python library which allows the internals of a file to be checked in to SVN. The reason for the Python library is that many applications and platforms can use Python so frontends can be written for different office suites. Therefore in future there'll be an 'ODFSVN for OpenOffice.org' extension which works on any OS, an 'ODFSVN for KOffice' extension which works on any OS, an 'ODFSVN for Abiword' ....
This will allow users of most ODF compliant software to collaborate between programs via shared repositories. This is not something anyone has attempted before so OOoSVN/ODFSVN are the only programs of their type.
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9point9,
Sounds like an interesting project. Best of luck though I expect luck has nothing to do with it.
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bobban
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9point9, that's really exciting to hear work is under way on this front even if an end result is some way off. I think source control is an awesome capability and I'm sure guys will do a great job on it! 
BTW, when I started looking into this I was half expecting some plugin for an existing source control package may have been written. Do you know if this was ever considered by the OOo community or if anyone has attempted this independently?
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9point9
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| bobban wrote: | | when I started looking into this I was half expecting some plugin for an existing source control package may have been written. Do you know if this was ever considered by the OOo community or if anyone has attempted this independently? |
Both ODFSVN and OOoSVN work on top of SVN, so yes, they do use an existing version control system. However, the strength of these systems is that they work on the internals of the files so the file (there will be some amazing things possible with this) has to be extracted before being checked in to SVN. There had to be a standard way of doing this so that different pieces of software could use the same repositories.
We have now got an alpha available of ODFSVN. It's a Python module with a command line frontend for the moment:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=478F579C.3080600%40simplon.biz&forum_name=odfsvn-generic
This will somehow be integrated into an OOo extension written in Python so that any user of OOo >= 2.3.0 will be able to use the system directly on any platform, assuming SVN is installed. Trouble is for the moment there is very little experience in writing Python extensions for OOo.
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