[dev] openoffice and svn.
Hi, Has anyone tried using svn(subversion) to store openoffice documents? If oowriter2 could be integrated with svn, one could turn openoffice into a distributed document writing tool. This would be a major advantage over using MS Word. I tried unziping the .odt and storing those files in svn, but the diff is not ideal, as the entire document appears to be on one line according to diff. Any comments? James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] openoffice and svn.
On Sonntag 15 Januar 2006 13:39, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > I tried unziping the .odt and storing those files in svn, but the diff > is not ideal, as the entire document appears to be on one line according > to diff. You can turn off Load/Save -> General -> "Size optimization forXML format" for better readable format. Anyway, a line-based diff doesn't really make sense for XML. SVN integration could/should also happen on a different level, like this: a virtual disk that looks like any other storage media but which internally stored things in SVN. Not sure if such a thing already exists. Regards Daniel -- http://www.danielnaber.de - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] openoffice and svn.
Daniel Naber wrote: On Sonntag 15 Januar 2006 13:39, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: I tried unziping the .odt and storing those files in svn, but the diff is not ideal, as the entire document appears to be on one line according to diff. You can turn off Load/Save -> General -> "Size optimization forXML format" for better readable format. Anyway, a line-based diff doesn't really make sense for XML. SVN integration could/should also happen on a different level, like this: a virtual disk that looks like any other storage media but which internally stored things in SVN. Not sure if such a thing already exists. Thank you for that. It is much more suited for line based diff with that optimization turned off. The reason I would like open office to integrate better with svn is because then open office would be able to handle svn commit conflicts better, and also be able to use redlining to highlight changes between different versions of the document in the svn repository. If SVN was just a file system, open office would not be able to support the above features. But, at least with the "Size optimization forXML format" disabled, only the real changes are placed in the svn repository, which is a start. James James - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] openoffice and svn.
On Sonntag 15 Januar 2006 15:59, James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > The reason I would like open office to integrate better with svn is > because then open office would be able to handle svn commit conflicts > better, and also be able to use redlining to highlight changes between > different versions of the document in the svn repository. The "svn file system" could also provide access to old versions, for example like this: if a file is named foo.odt, there could be a directory "foo.odt-versions" which contains all versions ever checked in, named by their id. Of course OOo would then need to know about that. But still better than adding SVN support to every program that might ever want to use it. Regards Daniel -- http://www.danielnaber.de - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[dev] GPLv3
please respond on dev@openoffice.org Hi *, I'm here at MIT in Boston representing OOo at the GPLv3 meeting and I'd like for the NLC leads and developers on dev@openoffice.org to tell me what you are interested in. Yes, OOo uses LGPL but that's not at issue here. Let me know on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list what is important to your communities and to you regarding the GPL and what changes should be made to make it better. The summit lasts until Tuesday of this week but the discussion period will be fairly long afterward. The issues that I am interested in are coincidentally the obvious ones: * patents * internationalization Other issues include services, DRM, and better compatibility with non- free licenses. Best, Louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [dev] openoffice and svn.
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone tried using svn(subversion) to store openoffice documents? > If oowriter2 could be integrated with svn, one could turn openoffice > into a distributed document writing tool. This would be a major > advantage over using MS Word. > > I tried unziping the .odt and storing those files in svn, but the diff > is not ideal, as the entire document appears to be on one line according > to diff. > > Any comments? I already thought about that (stimulated by a discussion on the 2004 OOoCon in Berlin) and I think it's possible if you mean that svn shall reflect the internal ZIP hierarchy so that every document becomes a folder in svn containing files and sub folders for the document content. IIRC svn allows to access it through WebDAV, so the "only" thing we need is to exchange the component implementing the com.sun.star.embed.Storage service that stores the content of documents into a ZIP package by providing a hierarchical file system like view to it by another service that stores to a location represented by a UCB content. Such a service already exists in OOo, it is currently only used to store UI configuration files to the local file system or into a document by the same API, but it will also work if you let it access a WebDAV or FTP resource (everything that can be acessed by a UCP and is able to provide files and folders). If this "unpacked" storing is done to a WebDAV folder working on top of a directory in svn you will get a directory in svn for each document you save, containing all streams inside the package as a file. I don't know how good the WebDAV support of svn is, at least it must be possible to create sub folders because OOo documents contain them. Another way would be to write another new OOo service implementing the com.sun.star.embed.Storage service where svn is accessed directly to fulfill the service contract. By using a configuration setting or function parameter to use this new service (or the above mentioned UCB based storage) instead of the "regular" one that stores into a ZIP package you can directly store to svn. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
