ciao yuval, > On March 18, 2011 07:57:25 pm a.l.e wrote: > > the content is managed in a wiki form and is stored in a database. > > the source control architecture would not back up the database > itself, only the code to generate it and access it. however you > don't need SSH to access a wiki/database from the html front end? > > > > the access to the server is only need to modify the forms and the > > templates. > > for forms and templates it would work. i have set up recently a > mercurial over https configuration. it boils down to adding users in > the .htaccess file, no SSH access required (which I understand is > what you are wary about?). > > > > personally, i haven't yet used mercurial yet (nor git; i still > > normally use svn, which is not ok to publish a website). > > Why do you state that SVN is not OK to publish a website? Hugin > moved to Mercurial only a year ago. Prior to that it was in SVN. > The website too. And it worked well.
it's not really practical to put a svn check out on a webserver: it's polluted with .svn directories... > > let's see how we will manage the site next year... i think that we > > will give up with anwiki. mercurial could then be a way to manage > > it! > > I don't know the site's architecture. I do know that before giving > up a tool I would want to have a comprehensive look at what works and > what not, and make sure that the change of tool is not just for the > sake of changing tool. we are changing now for drupal. the new site will be up as soon as possible. i hope we won't have to change again next year! not sure if it's worth to put a drupal instance in a revision system... we will see. ciao a.l.e _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
