• ketmar (13/13) Oct 11 2017 in the wootedit repo[0] you can find a very simple (but working)
• Mengu (3/19) Oct 13 2017 dude, didn't know you were sitting on a gold mine (iv). thanks
• ketmar (3/5) Oct 13 2017 you're welcome. if you need something other than GPL on some modules, th...

ketmar <ketmar ketmar.no-ip.org> writes:

in the wootedit repo[0] you can find a very simple (but working) 
collaborative notepad implementation, based on WOOT algorithm[1][2].

if you ever wanted to know how all those collaborative editors were done... 
look no further! ;-) wootedit is simple, but complete implementation of 
such editor, with UDP-based network communication. currently, it was tested 
under GNU/Linux only, but there are no platform-specific code (except some 
socket API), so porting it to another OS should be trivial.

you will need IV[3] and ARSD[4] libraries to build wootedit.


[0] http://repo.or.cz/wootedit.git
[1] http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00071240/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type
[3] http://repo.or.cz/iv.d.git
[4] https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd

Mengu <mengukagan gmail.com> writes:

On Thursday, 12 October 2017 at 01:43:00 UTC, ketmar wrote:
 in the wootedit repo[0] you can find a very simple (but 
 working) collaborative notepad implementation, based on WOOT 
 algorithm[1][2].

 if you ever wanted to know how all those collaborative editors 
 were done... look no further! ;-) wootedit is simple, but 
 complete implementation of such editor, with UDP-based network 
 communication. currently, it was tested under GNU/Linux only, 
 but there are no platform-specific code (except some socket 
 API), so porting it to another OS should be trivial.

 you will need IV[3] and ARSD[4] libraries to build wootedit.


 [0] http://repo.or.cz/wootedit.git
 [1] http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00071240/
 [2] 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type
 [3] http://repo.or.cz/iv.d.git
 [4] https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd

dude, didn't know you were sitting on a gold mine (iv). thanks 
for sharing!

ketmar <ketmar ketmar.no-ip.org> writes:

Mengu wrote:

 dude, didn't know you were sitting on a gold mine (iv). thanks for 
 sharing!

you're welcome. if you need something other than GPL on some modules, this 
is usually negotiable (for free ;-).