Tool for document management

[M. Fioretti]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 14:28:23 PM -0400, Hal Burgiss (hal at burgiss.net)
wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 09:59:30AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > searches I ran across a message in a mailing list which said that version
> > controls designed for software might not be the best for documents.
> 
> Why not? 
>  
> I've used cvs for documents, images, etc (as well as code), and it
> seemed like a very workable solution.

I have no direct experience yet, but I've been thinking how to do
almost the same thing as the OP for ages and so I am very interested
to hear what others suggest. So to keep the discussion going, I'll
list a couple arguments against sw version control for general
document management that I have read here and there:

- you can't index everything in a coherent manner, be it text or, even
  worst, metadata, including for example those embedded in JPEG files

- you waste lots of space if you keep different versions of raster
  images or other kind of binary files (MS Office, Opendocument..)

- more cumbersome configuration to make them truly usable for non
  programmers, especially over a web interface.

What do you think? Again, I have no direct recent experience about
this, I'm just summarizing things I've heard to check whether they're
(still) true or not.

Ciao,
	Marco
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