A version-controlled object database with real-time collaborative editing
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Re: A version-controlled object database with real-time collaborative editing
#2i have always wished, google docs, or office's word versioning showed the tree / branch view like this does.
it would be great to see other peoples work and how the auto merges are made and can be restructured.
Its a real shame that it is not exposed in two most popular editors (gdocs and word)
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#3The collaboration video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWkhLyQm4s especially,
reminded me of The Mother of All Demos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY&feature=youtu.be...
We're still trying to get this out of the genetic soup stage.
CoreObject looks like a great stab at it with a great name!
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#4Who is the target audience? If the target audience is software engineers then I think the marketing text is okay, but could use some simplification as well as a brief description of why I would care. In other words, why aren't my current tools good enough? If the target audience is Google Docs and Word users who are not software developers, then I think they would be lost. For example in the main intro video, one of the first things said is "If you kill -9". I know what that means, but my sales, marketing, etc friends would have no clue.
Re: A version-controlled object database with real-time collaborative editing
#5Who is the target audience? If the target audience is software engineers then I think the marketing text is okay, but could use some simplification as well as a brief description of why I would care. In other words, why aren't my current tools good enough? If the target audience is Google Docs and Word users who are not software developers, then I think they would be lost. For example in the main intro video, one of…
The product is an objective c library. So yes, it's targeted at developers. This blurb is front and center:
> CoreObject is a version-controlled object database for Objective-C that supports powerful undo, semantic merging, and real-time collaborative editing.
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#6Who is the target audience? If the target audience is software engineers then I think the marketing text is okay, but could use some simplification as well as a brief description of why I would care. In other words, why aren't my current tools good enough? If the target audience is Google Docs and Word users who are not software developers, then I think they would be lost. For example in the main intro video, one of…
The product is an objective c library. So yes, it's targeted at developers. This blurb is front and center: > CoreObject is a version-controlled object database for Objective-C that supports powerful undo, semantic merging, and real-time collaborative editing.
Yes I read that. Then further down I see the following in User Experience:
"Collaborative editing on any document, Easy data sharing between applications, Everything is searchable, past and present"
"On any document" doesn't sound like Objective-C any more. One of the videos shows drawing shapes not source code. If it had "library" in big and bold somewhere then I would probably be like "Ah I see". But the word library is not found on the page except in the description of a minor feature.
Bottom line: I was (still am) confused what this thing is other than it does some cool version-controlled, collaborative editing.
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#7This is really cool! I'm not sure if this is true of the library itself, but in the Typewriter demo app, "merging" basically means "append." There's no smart diff and merge.
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#8only for mac ?
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#9This is very exciting. Bravo to team Etoile!
I wonder if there are similar version-controlled object databases available for other environments?
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#10only for mac ?
This is from the Étoilé team, who are building an open-source operating system based on GNUStep. As stated on the project page,
> Minimal dependencies (SQLite and EtoileFoundation)