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From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Collaborative Sam?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:34:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e61003150734y7c7482fbsfcdca20069cc4ac2@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3aaafc131003150705t5832e72fv6b17c1bf6da000ef@mail.gmail.com>

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I don't know enough about sam's innards to be able to say whether or not
this could work, but I do like the idea.

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Jorden Mauro <jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:

> How hard would it be to stick a program between a single sam -R and
> several samterms? I imagine such a program would have to interpret the
> sam protocol and handle merges and simultaneous updates, but since sam
> essentially treats files operations as database transactions, it seems
> like sam's protocol could be very helpful. The possibilities for what
> such an intermediary program could do are probably limitless, but I
> was thinking it could make collaborative editing via sam a
> possibility.
>
> I don't know enough about sam's protocol to know if such an idea would
> work.
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-15 14:05 Jorden Mauro
2010-03-15 14:34 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2010-03-15 15:14   ` Jorden Mauro
2010-03-15 15:30     ` David Leimbach
2010-03-15 17:04       ` Chad Brown
2010-03-15 17:38         ` Jorden Mauro
2010-03-15 17:47       ` Jorden Mauro
2010-03-15 22:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-03-15 23:14   ` Jorden Mauro

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