[ANN] IDE Development Option

[Richard Gaskin]

Scott Rossi wrote:

> Recently, "Richard Gaskin"  wrote:
> 
>>> I went ahead tried to do something, for better or worse.
> 
>> What would it take to enhance it to also work on substacks?  While some have
>> expressed an interest in even greater granularity, I think substacks are
>> probably enough for a good many people.  If this tool was enhanced to do
>> that it could be used by nearly everyone, regardless of how their stacks are
>> architected.
> 
> If I understand your question, this is inherently built in since one
> accesses stacks through MC.  Are the substacks posted not enough granularity
> for you?

I think I misunderstood.  I had thought it was dependent on breaking
substacks out into separate stack files.

>> As for the simultaneous login issue, I think that one's easy to get around
>> by having a CGI that creates a file while it's working and deletes it before
>> exiting.  This way any second instance can check for the file with polling
>> at some reasonably small interval until the file is gone.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing something but the system I set up already does this: grab
> a stack and it is marked as unavailable to anyone who attempts to grab that
> stack from the server.  No CGI needed (unless we suddenly get hundreds of
> interested folks all vying for stack access at the same time).

It may be unlikely, but in the variant I'm building for a client we had to
do it to eliminate the admittedly small possibility of simulataneous writes
to the permissions file.

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