rgheck wrote:
Uwe Brauer wrote:
> No. I suppose it could be done, but it would be a huge amount of
> work.
That I was afraid of. It reminds me of the hen/egg problem. Not very
many people miss such a software, but once it is there...(like with
wikipedia)
No, it's not so much that. I could be wrong, but it seems to me like
doing this would involve writing a whole new program, more or less.
Not entirely. We could extend the lyxserver to do this kind of
synchronisation over the internet. There will always be one LyX instance
acting as a server and that could send func request to other LyX
clients. This is more or less what the Abiword people are doing with
their new version.
And really making LyX VC-friendly seems to me as if it would be a
superior solution.
I agree. With good support for decentralized SCM (git, hg, ...) and
proper merging support within LyX this would be a far far superior
solution. A solution that would allow multiple ways of collaborations:
fully synchronized, periodically synchronized or synchronized on-demand.
And you would also decide when you push your change to the others, as
opposed to Abiword solution where the changes are immediately visible on
all clients.
Food for thought... :-)
Abdel.
