Sounds like a product / plugin waiting to be developed??? SKIP
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Andre Garzia <an...@andregarzia.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < > s...@magicgate.com> wrote: > >> Any thoughts on using a shared Dropbox folder for team development and >> file versioning? >> > > If you do that, you will need a file locking mechanism. I can be as simple > as writing a file with the same name as the file being locked but with an > extra extension ".lock" so if you are editing a file called > > contacts.livecode > > then you will have a file called > > contacts.livecode.lock > > in that folder if the file is being used by someone. You also need a way to > expire the locks. So you when you lock a file for your usage you put the > seconds into the file, this way other clients know when it was opened. You > can make a little software that will rewrite that file with a new "seconds" > value every minute while it is locked. When you unlock the file, then the > lockfile is deleted. If the value in the lockfile is older than five > minutes, you can unlock it as well since it means that the original worked > is no longer working on it (Remember that it would write the lockfile every > minute). > > Something along those lines will help your team tasks. > > > >> >> SKIP >> >> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> >> wrote: >> > Skip- >> > >> > Monday, August 27, 2012, 11:41:54 AM, you wrote: >> > >> >> What do you all use for team development and source code repository? >> >> Is there such a thing as GIT for LC? >> > >> > Git has been integrated into glx2 for a few months now. Complex tasks >> > are delegated to gitk/gitx, but staging of files is automatic and >> > other tasks are available from the Tools menu. >> > >> > -- >> > -Mark Wieder >> > mwie...@ahsoftware.net >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > use-livecode mailing list >> > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > > -- > http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. > http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
