Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File-tpye plug-in architecture for Arch?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: michael josenhans <address@hidden>

    > My idea would be to make tools like OO patchset-aware. The
    > current way of change tracking does not work according my
    > understanding very well.

    > This is not an OO-problem, but rather a revision mangement
    > problems all office suites face that I know.

Yup.  Furthermore, I wonder if solving it well for some popular office
tool might not lead to a _hugely_ popular application.

I wouldn't expect the average expert user of office tools, especially
tools for making fairly large documents, to really want the arch CLI
or to ever dig complex patch-flow diagrams -- but I'll bet that a
simple gatekeeper tree of an editor merging changes from writers would
be a helpful thing.  (E.g., tech-writer dept making a manual; or
sales-dept making a quarterly status report with the contributors
carrying around branches on their laptops; or marketing and finance
working on an annual report.)

-t