Yes - VCS calling interface is what I remember, and I think it is a good
idea (if integrated well).
For client-end editing "from the web" with some sort of reasonable undo that
is more reliable than the browser, I suggest (ahem - hard to do, since I've
been using Chrome the past few months) using Firefox, with the "its all
text" plugin - that lets you edit any form "offline" in an editor of your
choosing (e.g. vi).
Only problem w/ that - when editing w/ web2py, you have to constantly
change to "text" mode for "its all text" to come up / work. Would be nice
for those people if this default (what comes up when you edit) was
configurable.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:32 PM, achipa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yarko, maybe including is the wrong word if Massimo is referring to my
> VCS web2py patch. I'm providing a mechanism to call whatever
> underlying VCS you are using in the project. It's just making web2py
> smart enough to detect different VCS files, and putting a button or
> two on some of the admin pages to do update/commit/revert (by calling
> the adequate VCS modules or simply executing a shell command). I've
> already done it for subversion and bazaar, and it's just a couple of
> minutes of work to add anybody's favourite. It's very unwieldy (like
> any VCS) to use for edit/save/run type of development.
>
> I personally think the back button is something that you should not
> rely on (for whatever purpose). With any fairly recent web2.0 site it
> will only wreak havoc as 'back' is not really the 'back' the user
> might think it is. I'm generally not a great fan of using web-based
> editors for serious work, but that's probably just my VI addiction
> speaking.
>
> On Nov 20, 7:13 pm, "Yarko Tymciurak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:52 AM, mdipierro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Let me think about. I thought we were going to include a real version
> > > control system eventually.
> >
> > We've had this discussion in the past: it makes no sense to "include" a
> VCS
> > in web2py (too many people have favorites).
> >
> > It _can_ make sense to write a unified interface, so that you can "plug
> in"
> > your favorite VCS (and location of repository).
> >
> > Once that is in place, it would be nice to version projects - but even
> so, I
> > would do this on-demand ("checkin").
> >
> > This kind of editing "undo" is probably another layer of behavior,
> distinct
> > and different from what a VCS is for. If you look (for example) at
> > docs.google.com, when editing a file, auto-save is in effect for some
> time
> > period. If you look at your document's history, you can see a "session"
> > might have 4 or 5 (or more) saves, and inspecting each, you can see that
> > they grabbed something you were in the middle of.
> >
> > I'm not sure we want / need to get that elaborate (or do we?).
> >
> > Think about implementing a simple 'undo' mechanism first - something
> beyond
> > browser back, short of an auto-saved versioning system (which I think
> would
> > be too big a distraction for web2py).
> >
>
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