From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-02-22T04:24:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Virtual Ruby Group

Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> writes:

> Curt Hibbs wrote:
>> One more suggestion: you could make a FreeRIDE plugin out of jabber4r, and
>> then use the jabber4r comm link both for chat-style messages and for
>> synchronized edited.
>
> That seems like an interesting idea, though I don't know the first thing
> about Jabber.
>
> To clarify lest anyone misunderstand: When I said pair-programming features
> for FreeRIDE, I meant of course *remote* pair programming.
>
> The idea has always interested me, but I have always felt daunted by the
> prospect of implementing it. I wouldn't attempt it alone, as I recall how
> many hours it took me just to get that little chess server to work. But
> hopefully Jabber hides most of the networking details, leaving FXRuby and
> Scintilla as the biggest hurdles.

If you have access to a Mac, I'd recommend to try SubEthaEdit, where
multiple people can edit the same document too.

I've spend some time thinking about how to write something about that,
but making it usable even on high latency connections and handling
eventual conflicts seems rather hard to me.

> Hal
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