[perldoc2-developers] datase vs. versioning

[Joergen W. L. <joe...@gm...>]

Hello everybody,

here is one question that needs to be resolved, before we start coding. 
Currently we are simply using SVN to store the documents and their 
translations.

As I wrote in the specification Vs. 0.1 a database could also be used 
for storage. The advantage appears to be that we do not have to add 
another layer of complexity to the application. Only one method is 
needed to access application data, documents and meta information.

Now - there appears to be one problem: What about versioning the 
translations? In one or the other situation there might be a need to do 
a "rollback" to a previous version of a translation.

Versioning systems like SVN are made exactly for this, but might not 
have the convenience of a database.

If we decide in favour of a database, we'd have to implement versioning 
by ourselves which might outweigh the complexity of another layer.

For the moment we could simply use the SVN repository on sourceforge as 
our central storage area which is fine as long as we do not need any 
extra features.

Please let me know your opinions and ideas!

Joergen