[Clipart] Document-Manager 0.04

[Bryce Harrington]

Document-Manager version 0.04 has been uploaded to CPAN and will be
available there within a few hours.  The main change is that it adds a
'repo_get' tool for retrieving documents from the system, given their
doc_id. 

Bryce

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:

> I've released a new version of the Document-Manager package to CPAN.
> It's far from complete but has received a huge amount of development.
> It should be available on CPAN within a few hours.
> 
> I've split the original code into two modules:  Document::Repository and
> Document::Manager.  The former is the underlying core that performs the
> low-level operations on the repository and presents a simple API for
> interacting with it such as add() and get().  Document::Manager will
> provide a higher level interface that wraps Document::Repository and
> adds concepts such as locking, properties, and searching.
> 
> For this release I mainly focused on fleshing out Document::Repository. 
> I also added a script, 'repo_add', that tests out the add() function.
> It can be used like this:
> 
>  $ mkdir ~/DMS
>  $ echo 'foo' > foo
>  $ repo_add  foo  -R ~/DMS
>  Created document id '17'
> 
> Since no access control is available yet, repo_add can be considered an
> administrative script.  
> 
> The default location for the repository is /var/dms, but it can be
> overridden by the -R flag as shown above.  
> 
> Document::Repository also includes some other routines:  get(),
> documents(), revisions(), and stats().
> 
> Bryce
>