Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: OpenACS and Sharepoint

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Posted by Robert Taylor on
We are looking at replicating similar functionality.

However, when I spoke to Gustaf about using Xowiki as a document management utility and perhaps some sort of frontend for FileStorage and other things, he mentioned that for their users they do something interesting.

They thought that WebDav didn't scale too well so what they decided to do was use GIT to replicate local files to FS and then go from there.

For our needs, we will be looking at this very seriously because GIT scales massively, it's fast and we don't have to worry about connectivity as much.  Of course users are always using local files then which also has benefits if the files are exceptionally large.  

The downside is that windows users complain there is no git gui but we could have a simply python frontend with a button that says SYCNHRONISE running in no time - a user gui client would not haveto have more than a few basic features to make this work.

Anyway, not sure if anyone thinks this might be usefull to them, just thought I would share.

We would be interested in collaborating with whoever might be working on something along those lines and seeing if we can first pitch in and second maybe see if some of this stuff already exists so we can pull a solution together.