Hi people, I am currently developing a content management system under mod_perl, with data stored in an RDBMS (MySQL at present, but Oracle on the production server).
I would like to add version control to published documents (read pages) and wondered if anyone has any experience of this who would be willing to offer me some advice. I have a CVS server and am curious as to whether there is some way this can used (bearing in mind that I want to manage DB data, not files). I would like to be able to rollback to any previous version (if possible), and would also like to document the different versions themselves. I'm thinking that I could maybe commit the database files to CVS and then use a module to communicate with the CVS server (Apache-CVS, VCP, VCS-CVS, etc). Is this possible? Has anyone ever tried anything like this? I have searched CPAN and used Google to search the web and Usenet but have so far drawn a blank. I suspect that I will not be able to use CVS in this manner and that therefore I am going to have to "roll my own". If this does turn out to be case - can anyone lend me any guidance as to how I work out what's changed in a record (between versions)? Then I can just store the changes in a DB as required. Jonathan M. Hollin - WYPUG Co-ordinator West Yorkshire Perl User Group http://wypug.pm.org/
