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Re: Parts Tracker Prototype Posted
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Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:18:28 GMT
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"Steve Bliss" <steve.bliss@home.com> writes:

> Besides downloading and releasing, some other things that
> could/should be implemented in the prototype are:

I admit that I'm pretty VB-illiterate (hey, that mix of
GUI and bussiness logic always gives me headaches ;-)), but I
don't see how you will manage the upload/download part.

Do you intend to "talk" to a central server? I saw that
"check out" and "check in" part. Do you intend to implement your
own file locking scheme? Perhaps just using a central CVS server
would be a nice solution since the part files are just text and
the CVS team has a good solution for the network communication part.
I don't know whether there are any libraries that you could use
from VB, but you could always call the binary to do that work
for you.

> Anyway, download it, try it out, let me know what you think.

Trying it is a little bit hard on my Linux workstation ;-)
I'll have a look at it when I'm at home.

Regards,
Hakan

--
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature"



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  Re: Parts Tracker Prototype Posted
 
(...) In the prototype? It's just a simulation -- the submit/upload just copies a file from somewhere on your hard drive to <prototypedir>/active/. The download would do the same thing, except in reverse. (...) In the prototype? No. It's a (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Parts Tracker Prototype Posted
 
This is *not* the news all good LCAD-heads have been waiting for, but it is a small step in the right direction. For the past month, I've been working on a prototype for a new Parts Tracker. I've been busy, so developments have gone slowly. Here's a (...) (26 years ago, 22-Mar-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)  

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