RE: CVS for differing regional sites?

[Arthur Barrett]

Stefan ,

> can the issue of  the insertion & replacement of certain 
> pieces of code be solved by using a CVS when the 
> regions update theirs sites with the latest "global" 
> version?

Yes and no.

We have this problem with our own web site, and we solve it by:
* having all text in "include" files (separate to the "code")
* all database content also has a "language" field
* having "magic branches" for each language

Magic branches are a feature unique to CVSNT (free, GPL, Unix, Linux, Windows 
etc).

This way the core parts of the site are common to all languages and only the 
translated pages are effectively on a branch.  In fact if a language hasn't 
translated a page and that page is updated it continues to be updated on that 
branch.

For more info about CVSNT please refer to the CVSNT web site and mailing list / 
newsgroup.

Regards,


Arthur Barrett