version control system (was mission critical apps)

[revolution at knowledgeworks.plus.com]

Wouter wrote
>>
How is this version control supposed to work?
If an xml file is used to store the "ripped" stack then opening the 
stack files
directly for a binary read and storing it in a custom properties could 
also be an option?
<<

I'm sorry Wouter, but I don't understand your question.  Could you 
elaborate?

My idea is that all the components of a stack would be converted to XML so 
that e.g. grepping/formatting/XML tools could be used to edit/manipulate 
the components outside of Rev.  Moreover, the components should be able to 
be selectively re-applied from the VCS e.g. you could go to the VCS and 
browse to a version of a stack from last week, find the component, and 
revert to the code for that component.

Indeed, as more and more data sources are exposing XML interfaces, I'm as 
interested in the principle of being to generate stacks from XML as I am 
in saving stacks as XML. 

Bernard