You won't be able to edit with any of your normal tools, or track changes with CVS, or diff it, or grep it, etc. I know it sounds great before you've tried it, but it really ends up being a problem for most projects that do it.

So provide a file based interface :)

I had to work with code in a database once. It was great for performance (the filesystem on that box performed lousily), and writing check in/out scripts was only an hour or so work.

Juerd # { site => 'juerd.nl', plp_site => 'plp.juerd.nl', do_not_use => 'spamtrap' }