[Design] File Management

[petite_abeille]

On Monday, Oct 21, 2002, at 20:36 Europe/Zurich, Hvr wrote:

> Easy version control: I want to second this one! Whenever i am working 
> with someone on a document  my mailbox fills up with emails all 
> containing a different version of the file, but all the files have the 
> same name. So some version management will be greatly appreciated.

Yes. Version control sounds like a good idea... However, in practice, 
it's hard to achieve when dealing with email attachments: they have few 
data that you can use to uniquely identify them. Using the name of an 
attachment is a non started (eg how many "business plan.doc" do you 
receive per day?). There are more convoluted approach, but none of them 
are fully satisfactory. Oh, well...

On the other hand, once a document is known to the system it could be 
advertise more directly: for example by vending it back to the file 
system directly through some standard file base protocol (WebDAV, FTP). 
That way your attachments miraculously show up directly in your file 
system instead of being buried in some obscure mailbox.

Just a though.

PA.