New AddOn: File synchronization

Feb 10th 2003 -- Thanks to Armand Verstappen from Envida there is now a new AegirAddOn available: Filesystem Synchronization (FileSync).

FileSync synchronizes data between regular files and Midgard snippets, enabling programming of Midgard applications using regular text editors and IDEs. It also makes working with CVS and Midgard easier, as each snippet can be its own file in the CVS repository.

The new AddOn has been added to the devel server and will appear in tomorrow's Nightly Build. Some additional notes about status of the AddOn:

1. Currently, only snippets are supported
2. Only the code field of the snippets are supported
3. You cannot create a new snippet/snippetdir on the filesystem, you need to create it from within midgard and sync to the filesystem.

In a shared development effort 3) means that creating new objects goes through a few extra steps, in short:

• developer creates new snippet on central development server
• developer synchronizes new snippet to filesystem and adds new file CVS
• developer exports new object(s) using repligard,
• developer imports new object(s) using repligard onto his local development system (in order to keep the guids sane)

granted, that is quite a hassle, but the time won by being able to work on files, using a real editor makes up for this easily.

More information

Armand Verstappen
armand@nl.envida.net