[Scribus] How do you guys share scribu files for collaboration?

[Craig Ringer]

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 11:00 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 08:16 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:

> > You'd need some sort of "smart" version control / content management
> > system that "understood" the doc format. I'd suggest Plone as the place
> > to start if you want to investigate something like that (it's already
> > used in some places for OO.o docs).
> 
> I've heard of plone. A friend of mine suggested I look at something
> which is like Object oriented in plone. (forgot the name of the app)

Pone is built on top of Zope, which is built on top of Python. It's all
pretty OO really.

> > Until we can get WebDAV support into Scribus, something like Plone will
> > be a lot less powerful, though, and to really benefit someone would need
> > to write up the Plone extensions to understand the Scribus file format.
> 
> Actually, where/how does WedDAV come into play?

Plone "talks" WebDAV - you can use WebDAV to retrieve and save documents
in Plone direct from apps that support it, somewhat like a shared
filesystem. Plone, however, can potentially do clever things like
"merging" changes to the document, because it's *not* just a filesystem.
Of course, anything like that would require more development work done
on the Plone side; nonetheless it's very interesting stuff. The Scribus
side of the work shouldn't be too bad (for http:// URL entry - providing
a DAV "browse" dialog would be harder until Qt4).

This tracker entry, and the related links shown in it, may be of
interest:
http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1924

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Craig Ringer