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3 points by yters 6117 days ago | link | parent | on: Community wiki

Just to throw this idea out there again:

wikiable app (the wiki is both a normal wiki, plus the code can be hot edited)

http://www.arclanguage.org/item?id=1884

I'll shut up now.

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1 point by cchooper 6115 days ago | link

Don't shut up. It's a good idea. I might give it a try at some point.

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1 point by yters 6131 days ago | link | parent | on: Idea: wikiable applications

Ah, well, if it's only reasonably good, I don't think I'll bother.

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1 point by yters 6131 days ago | link

Anyone have an idea how long this would take? How big of a project is this?

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1 point by almkglor 6130 days ago | link

Shouldn't be too big. Basically you could simply set up a part of prompt.arc to use a revisioning repository tool, and simply leave the working copy of the apps in each user's arc/app/ directory. When an wikiable app is edited, you can do a "cvs update" - "cvs commit" or "git pull" - "git add" - "git commit" or whatever your backend revisioning tool is. If a conflict occurs, send it back for editing, otherwise we succeed in the edit and return to prompt.

Basically you just wrap around the revisioning tool, which is effectively what a wiki with edit history does anyway.

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1 point by yters 6139 days ago | link | parent | on: Clarification about Character Sets

Since MzScheme can call out to C/C++ does that solve the lack of libraries?

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