Without OT - is that meant to be a reference to Oster and Imine's work? Or am I giving you too much credit?
Cheers, Dan On Aug 7, 8:58 pm, Patrick Nagel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brett, > > On 2010-08-07 07:13 UTC Brett Morgan wrote: > > > OT and version control systems serve very different masters. By that I mean > > you wouldn't want to use the merge system of version control systems for > > Wave, just as you would not want to use OT for managing source code > > history. > > > The reason is simple, to steal a line from one of the Wave team, OT is too > > good. OT's merge never fails. > > > In version control systems you, as a user, rely on the merge failing to > > highlight areas that need human intervention. In wave we don't want humans > > to have to constantly be involved in handling the real time merge of the > > disparate change streams. > > I'm aware of that. I was answering Ian's statements "My concern is that WFP is > tightly coupled with OT, and OT is complex.", which seems to imply that > something without OT could be more successful, at least as a first step. > And then later he writes "I wonder whether a slightly different protocol [...] > would be received better by the community. [...] one that would allow services > to federate any type of content.", which seems to also be covered by VCS, as > far as I can tell. > > I didn't really think this whole thing through, and maybe the required manual > merging vs. OT in WFP makes it not workable for a communication/collaboration > platform - but then so would any other implementation without OT, no? > > Patrick. > > -- > Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc > Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4 > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en.
