Team development solution

Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel skip at magicgate.com
Mon Aug 27 16:23:50 EDT 2012


Sounds like a product / plugin waiting to be developed???

SKIP

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <
> skip at 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 <mwieder at 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
>> >  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>> >
>> >
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