RE: Another feature request (CVS integration)

[lucc <lucc inf ufrgs br>]

Hi,

> This has been suggested a few times before but I dont think there is a
> report in Bugzilla.  I believe people have put together their own
> solutions but not anything integrated with Dia.
> XML aware diff tools do exist.  If I recall correctly using normal diff
> tools also works but not very well.

I've tried using sdiff a few times, but for medium to large UML diagrams 
its easy to 'lose the path' and do a mistake while merging that would 
corrupt the diagram... Then I started handling diagrams as binary data
in CVS.

> Dia files are all pretty printed (for a while compressed files were not
> pretty printed but I think they are now*).
> 
> Rather than getting Dia to work with just CVS specifically it might be
> better to look into something more genearlised like Gnome-VFS support**
> (or
It would be great to have a general solution like Gnome-VFS, though
I don't known that versioning is supported by the current API, 
specifically, I did found a cvs module in TO DO list. Nautilus currently
have a custom view for CVS named Apotheke, but I could not find if its
using gnome-vfs or is handling CVS metadata directly.

> something) and try to get WebDAV (and more) to improve your support for
> workflow management.
I still relute to move to WebDAV because it requires a speciffic server
to be installed while for cvs all that I need is my ssh account.

Anyway, thanks for your attention,

      Lucc