[school-discuss] CVS vs wiki for book collaberation

["Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>]

You might consider a CVS system (code versioning system)
instead of a wiki.  It's
designed to allow multiple people to collaberate
without stepping on each other's toes and while keeping
a complete log of all changes.  Changes can be rolled
back or forward as well.  You can also authorize people
to make changes in particular areas if you want
authorization.

http://www.cvshome.org/

CVS is better suited than a wiki for projects which have
something other than a wiki/web page final product.

There are gui interfaces for windows machines,
and maybe for Uhix too.  And the repository can be
viewed from the web if you set up a gateway.

The next generation of CVS is subversion, which you might consider
.  It's in alpha,
but the faq says it's usable and the subversion people
have been using it themselves since Nov of 2001 to hold
all the code for their project so it must work.
It will be better than cvs.

http://subversion.tigris.org/

Find CVS add-ons at http://freshmeat.net.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                  -- Robert A. Heinlein