[CLUE-Tech] On the subject of OpenOffice...

[David Anselmi]

greg at knaddison.com wrote:
[...]
> While that would work, it ignores some of the major benefits of CVS.  C
> (Concurrent) VS can merge like text files, but not binary files and it can diff
> various versions of text files, but again not binary files.  You can just unzip
> the OOo files into a directory by the name of the document and then put that all
> into CVS as normal text files, not binaries.  Another user could then check out
> that folder, zip it, rename it, and open it with OOo.  I believe that the really
> important file within the zip is the content.xml file and the rest are just
> formatting.  

Unzip, check-in, check-out, zip?  Are you kidding?  CVS should do all 
that for you.  Not that diffs on OOo files are going to be all that 
meaningful, might be easier to do all the drafting in text and then 
apply the formatting at the end.  Maybe I'll stick to TeX.

CVS can run scripts on check-in and check-out so I don't think it would 
be that hard to automate what you describe.  I haven't had the need yet 
so I was hoping someone else had got to it.

Dave