rcaputo writes:

A Zope-like content management server, or at least a wiki.

I hear you. A starting point would be to make a perl equivalent or mini-equivalent of ZODB, the object persistence engine, which is really just one big file and an index file. Make a server that takes an object, serializes it with Data::Dumper or something else and appends it to the big file, and makes a note in an index file of the byte offset for that object id.

Then add some higher level functions on that as rollback (find older version of object id in file and copy that to end) and compact (write new file with latest unique object ids, chosing the one last in file, overwrite old file with new file).

Sounds very doable...?

/jeorgen

In reply to Re: Re: Perl Project Ideas by jeorgen
in thread Perl Project Ideas by artist

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