On 26.10.2013 09:49, Campbell Barton wrote: > Hi, I was wondering if there was any effort to support collaborative > editing in QtCreator,
I am not aware of any, no. > Recently at the GSOC mentor summit I met with one of the mentors who's > student added a generic library for KDE to support this, he says this > will be added to the up-coming release of KDE. [] Does that work on windows and mac, too or is it linux specific. I think it sits on top of telepathy, which -- considering the poor state of dbus on windows/mac -- would make it a linux only solution. > I was wondering if this would be interesting to others, and if it > would be possible/desirable to add such a feature to QtCreator? It should be possible. Whether it is desireable depends a lot on how well it will actually work in the end:-) > If this is acceptable would there be the possibility of accepting > funding to get such a feature into QtCreator? There are always consulting companies like Digia and others available for such kind of work. > In case it matters - I'm interested in this feature for virtual > pair-programming. > > [0] https://floobits.com > [1] http://scummos.blogspot.de/2013/09/collaborative-text-editing-02-beta.html > As floobits.com says: To make this worthwhile there needs to be more than sharing an editor. Pair programming makes sense only if you both parties can agree on the state of the application they are working on. Otherwise there is no basis to start the programming from. That opens more questions like: * How can we share the terminal output? floobits mentions terminal sharing, too. * How can we share the debugger session? * How can we share the running application? RDP/VNC maybe? * Should collaborative editing integrate into version control somehow? Synchronization of state could be easier if you can just tell any editor to checkout revision X and then apply a couple of changes on top. Should one of the collaborators be responsible for saving/commiting the file? * An IDE is a bit more complex than a text editor: It has the code model to worry about. That needs to know the complete project state, not only one file. How is that going to be synchronized? Are you going to ask the user to open project X before he can join a collaborative editing session? How do you make sure both projects are in the same state then? * How can this work across platforms and ideally even between parties that use different versions of QtC (and ideally even other IDEs)? Many people seem to be interested into collaborative editing nowadays, so there is work we can build on in that area. Is somebody aware of work on the other aspects of colaborative (C++) programming? Best Regards, Tobias -- Tobias Hunger, Senior Software Engineer - Digia, Qt Digia Germany GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 13, D-12489 Berlin Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Anja Wasenius Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin. USt-IdNr: DE 286 306 868 Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
