>>But a locking mechanism tends to just be a substitute for good communication.<< I just have to pick this up quickly and state that ( human-based ) communication cannot in fact not replace a ( server based ) locking mechanism. During my everyday work it happens that I have to fix scenes or adjust them. People would never ( and should not ) send me a message everytime before they start working on a file just because I could possibly anytime want to make changes. It's just not feasible, even for people within one team. Locking files based on human communication will suffer from a great deal of human error as well, and will not be usable.
As long as you cannot diff the files you manage at all or at least not in a meaningful way, exclusive write access to files is required. Even with a perfect production management there are still guys like me that at least want some notification if some other person is currently registered to work on a file - without a server based system that would not be possible. But this is just my opinion based on everyday experience - others might have made other experiences that they might want to share here. Regards, Sebastian --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yours, Maya-Python Club Team. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
