Re: [podwiki] Re: Table syntax fix

[David A. B. <Br...@ac...>]

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Thomas Linden wrote:

> In fact, there are 2 issues:
>
> 1. as stated above: Edit Lock, that means If UserA starts editing a
>    page, UserB should get a message ("edit in progress by UserA" or
>    something).
>    IMHO there are a couple of ways to do it, the best would be to do
>    the lock itself using the underlying RCS. The only problem is, that
>    such a look must have some timeout feature, say after 1 hour or so,
>    if no change has been commited, the lock will be overridden (e.g.
>    if another user tries to edit a locked page and if the lock is
>    older than 1 hour, then override it (rcs -u)). But I'm not sure if
>    I like this :-)

I believe that TWiki does something very like this.

>    Another way would be explicitly NOT to do locking but instead
>    allow simultaneous edits and using rcsmerge to incorporate the

Hmmm, interesting idea.

> What do you think?

I'm not sure, but I tend toward the first alternative. You'd have to have a
pretty active wiki to really need the simultaneous edit feature.

> 2. Locking at all. I'm having still problems under mod_perl with

>    My current idea for a solution is somewhat more comprehensive:
>    I think about completely going away from using DBM at all. When

I like the idea of text files.

Got to get off to work...

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David A. Bright
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