[pmwiki-users] Viewing different versions of a page

[marc]

Kathryn Andersen said...
> On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:52:45AM +0100, marc wrote:
> > Kathryn Andersen said...
> > > One of my users has come to me asking if there's a way of viewing
> > > specific versions of a page (so that he can say "everybody, go and look
> > > at version X of page Y") -- to *view* it, not to *edit* it.  I know that
> > > one can click on History, Restore and then Preview, but that's not
> > > really suitable for naieve users.
> 
> > I'd find this useful too. I'm sure a recipe could be cooked up to 
> > automate applying the history, but I don't know, and doubt, whether 
> > there's a useful tag to identify the version. Over to Patrick, I think.
> > 
> > Of course, you could always use Subversion :-) <ducks and runs>
> 
> Are you joking or serious?

I was being flippant. As far as I know there aren't any PHP bindings for 
the Subversion API. Not that creating something from them would 
necessarily be a good idea, in any case.

We have "rev" in the PmWiki page, but not for each amendment - just 
author, diff and host (from looking at a page file). Perhaps this is a 
case for the rev to be stored with each amendment; a case could also be 
made for the timestamp (ctime) too. I'm sure Patrick has considered 
these things before and will, of course, know a lot more about the 
repercussions.

-- 
Best,
Marc