On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> That I was afraid of. It reminds me of the hen/egg problem. Not very
> many people miss such a software, but once it is there...(like with
> wikipedia)
>
No, it's not so much that. I could be wrong, but it seems to me like
doing this would involve writing a whole new program, more or less.
Not entirely. We could extend the lyxserver to do this kind of
synchronisation over the internet. There will always be one LyX instance
acting as a server and that could send func request to other LyX
clients. This is more or less what the Abiword people are doing with
their new version.
Are we talking about simultaneous editing of the same document here? I.e,
to people collaboratively editing the same document, where for instance
you could have your own cursor to act with, but also see what the other
guy is up to? (I believe this functionality was avaialable back in
Framemaker, but I never used it personally).
Anyway, the comment further down on Abiword seems to imply this.
And really making LyX VC-friendly seems to me as if it would be a superior
solution.
Abiword solution where the changes are immediately visible on all clients.
I think simultaneous editing would be a great for certain tasks, e.g.
looking at suggested changes when you are not able to meet in real life.
However, we're talking about different use cases here. With good support
for VCS (and branches), you can do so much more.
regards
/Christian
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