Re: [LUG] Wikis and miniWikis

[Tony Atkin <tone_pl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 January 2002 2:19 pm, Steve Marvell wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 01:52:48PM +0000, Jon Still wrote:
> > > Care to paraphrase the locking strategy?
> >
> > I dunno :)  I can only presume it's handled by the DB backend, so
> > MySQL in my case, or dbm if you've gone that route.  To be honest
> > it wasn't something I cared about that much as there are only 3
> > people accessing it :)
>
> The problem comes with two people editting the same document and how
> you handle conflicts, if they are handled at all.
Wikis I have seen:
If two or more people have a document open then the first one to 
return an update locks out the rest.  I havn't yet seen a wiki which 
attempts a more fine grained resolution of conflicts, although I would 
be very interested if anyone knows of one.  

Tony




--
The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG
Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the
message body to unsubscribe.