EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by aaroniba » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 5:24 AM UTC

EtherPad Open Source Release
etherpad.com

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#2

Post by vaksel » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 5:44 AM UTC

the mob has spoken

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#3

Post by jsomers » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 5:47 AM UTC

Man, I can't wait to build this locally. In its raw form I expect it to work great for essay writing, etc., but I can imagine all kinds of cool modifications, like allowing cross-pad hyperlinks. Let the hacking begin!

Edit: I realize that a local build makes very poor use of etherpad's killer feature--its super-fast realtime collaboration--but the biggest draw for me was actually their "playback" mode.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#4

Post by anotherjesse » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 5:52 AM UTC

I've wanted to add a feature like this into userscripts.org for a long time!

stop! compile time

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

#5

Post by houseabsolute » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 5:53 AM UTC

Huh, looks like the whole thing, client and server, are written in Javascript. I think I would be fine with that. Beats writing it in C++ that's for sure.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by dimarco » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 5:55 AM UTC

houseabsolute wrote: post #5

Huh, looks like the whole thing, client and server, are written in Javascript. I think I would be fine with that. Beats writing it in C++ that's for sure.

There is a ton of Scala in there.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 5:59 AM UTC

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Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by atamyrat » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:00 AM UTC

They also released internal development notes, goals, TODO list, design decisions etc. Check out *.txt files.

http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/source/browse/trunk/infras... http://code.google.com/p/etherpad/source/browse/trunk/infras...

Thanks for sharing them!

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by houseabsolute » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:01 AM UTC

dimarco wrote: post #6

houseabsolute wrote: post #5

Huh, looks like the whole thing, client and server, are written in Javascript. I think I would be fine with that. Beats writing it in C++ that's for sure.

There is a ton of Scala in there.

Where? I only sampled a few directories, couldn't find anything except js.

Re: EtherPad Open Source Release

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Post by tdmackey » Fri, Dec 18, 2009, 6:02 AM UTC

jsomers wrote: post #3

Man, I can't wait to build this locally. In its raw form I expect it to work great for essay writing, etc., but I can imagine all kinds of cool modifications, like allowing cross-pad hyperlinks. Let the hacking begin! Edit: I realize that a local build makes very poor use of etherpad's killer feature--its super-fast realtime collaboration--but the biggest draw for me was actually their "playback" mode.

I got it running on a vps and it works great. The documentation made it trivial to do so.