[opencms-dev] Re: External editing

[M Butcher]

Ahmed --

I'm reading the specification right now, and you are correct -- all 
recent versions of WebDAV should support locking. That would solve the 
major problem I was anticipating.

Matt

Ahmed Mohombe wrote:
> M Butcher wrote:
> 
>> Ahmed Mohombe wrote:
>>
>>> M Butcher wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oh, I see... the client part would function more like the 
>>>> TortoiseSVN client (Windows client for Subversion) -- it's main job 
>>>> would be to synchronize between a remote and a local CMS repository.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I thought that WebDAV does such a thing. The "client to be 
>>> implemented" would be just a bridge between the WebDAV client and the 
>>> desktop applications (those who does not speak WebDAV), and to start 
>>> them.
>>> (looking in the source of that Zope module: does not seem to do more 
>>> :) )
>>> Am I right, or did I understood something wrong? :)
>>
>>
>>
>> IIRC, WebDAV has no concept of locking or stateful editing. I don't 
>> know of any extensions that do, either. 
> 
> Hmm, funny, I've just played with Dreamweaver + jakarta Slide(webDav) 
> repository, and Dreamweaver really blocks the "check-outed files" on the 
> server. Actually there's a small button  icon with "checkout and block". 
> I'm not an WebDAV expert, but using "DAVExplorer-0.90", I can "explore" 
> the WebDAV repository (the one from Slide), and I can see the files 
> locked by Dreamweaver. So, I may be wrong, but what I saw was "Locking" :).
> 
> Ahmed.
> 
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