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Re: Parts Tracker Prototype Posted
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Sat, 24 Mar 2001 10:06:30 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Steve Bliss writes:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Hakan Tandogan wrote:
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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.
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> 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.
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> > Do you intend to "talk" to a central server?
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> In the prototype? No. It's a local-computer thing only.
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> The real Parts Tracker will be a server-based system, with a Web interface.
> Assuming we want to locate Parts Tracker on the ldraw.org server, the front
> end will have to be written in something that's Linux-friendly. Probably
> Perl.
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> > I saw that
> > "check out" and "check in" part. Do you intend to implement your
> > own file locking scheme?
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> We'll only code it if we have to.
If the server is a UNIX server then maybe you can use RCS - I think this
change/version control system is implemented on most commercial UNIX platforms
and is not difficult to use. In addition to the file locking it could also give
you version history and automatic internal timestamping.
Chris
> Seriously, there will be some data that will have high contention, if
> stored in a single location -- like the user settings and part-requests
> list. But most data will be in separate files, and I don't expect too many
> people to be working with same parts at the same time. We'll need to be
> aware of file-locking issues, of course. But there shouldn't be major
> amounts of collisions.
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> > 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.
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> I've gotten mixed messages about the utility of programming a custom
> front-end against CVS. I'm not familiar with CVS, just other source code
> control tools like PVCS and Visual SourceSafe.
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> > 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.
>
> Right.
>
> > > 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.
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> I look forward to hearing what your feedback.
>
> BTW, in true prototype style, there are extremely few comments in the
> source code.
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> Steve
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