Sourceforge project pimpage

[Ed]

Thought I'd just use this post as a thinly veiled shameless plug for my Sourceforge Project, OOoSVN:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooosvn

Quite a number of Nexuiz players seem to run 'nix which also means a fair number will be running OpenOffice.org so this might be of interest to a fair number of you.

What it does is provide a set of macros and shell scripts which when activated through an 'SVN' menu provide a tool to check ODF and SX* files into a proper version control system. AFAIK this is the first project to provide such functionality on any platform.

What this means:
Every file you ever make in OOo can be inclemently backup up meaning that you can access any version of any document you ever save. Accidentally deleting, overwriting or corrupting a file is no longer a problem.

It's still beta, more to come.

[Psychcf]

hm. That's actually a really interesting thing. Do you plan on doing something involving viewing diffs between revisions?

[Ed]

Do you plan on doing something involving viewing diffs between revisions?

I've already implemented it but it's seemingly a bit broken at the moment... Good thing I just checked that. All it does (or did, if it is indeed broken) is give you a list of all versions, you select the version to compare the current version against, then it uses OOo's Compare Documents feature to give you a graphical comparison. It works (or worked) very well.

Edit: It was only broken on my development setup.

[dweep]

would this work for windows as well?
im on linux but my coworkers use windows :/

[Ed]

would this work for windows as well?
im on linux but my coworkers use windows :/

A couple of versions down the line it will, but not yet. Currently it is set up for a single user on a 'nix machine (I've had reports it even works on OSX). The next major release (0.4) will allow multiple SVN repositories to be used concurrently (eg, you have your own repo, one between a workgroup, one for your whole company and different documents will be archived in which ever one you choose). After that there will be release with Wiindows support so then any group of users using pretty much any OS will be able to work on many different documents together without having version conflicts and with negligible risk of any version ever being lost.

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

nice idea! i'm working mostly on Windows now, but i guess i will have moved to linux when the Windows version comes out!

[dweep]

sounds great. i`l be watching

[aikbix]

For the most part I'm on Windows. But I'm gonna be getting back into Linux soon. I'll give it a shot.