[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: PmWikiDraw and multiple editors?

Jonathan Scott Duff duff
Thu Dec 16 08:22:12 CST 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:48:38PM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Ciaran wrote:
> 
> > In PmWiki2 its somewhat better, the changes are merged. 
> 
> I'd say it is *much* better in PmWiki 2. Not only are you informed that 
> someone else edited and saved the page while you were working on it, you 
> are also immediately shown what they did. In addition, the system is 
> supposed to automatically merge the changes so that you don't have to do 
> anything manually... this is the theory anyway, I haven't had any 
> experience with it yet.

Well, you aren't shown "what they did" as much as you are shown "their
changes and yours merged into one document with conflict areas clearly
delimited", but it does work quite well.  

Random thoughts: It seems "difficult" to merge images the same way that
you'd merge text.  The granularity would be pixels rather than objects
and that seems way too small.   It'd be best if you could find a way
to say "a circle of this extent was added at location (x,y)"  

I wonder if it would be worth while to somehow store the actions used to
generate the image along with the image itself. Then, when someone has
edited an image while you were editing, you should be able to display
the image and "replay" the actions they used to make their changes and
decide if you really want to incorporate those changes into your image.

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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