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Re: [Linux-aus] Media Officer Now

Yes, sorry. "Sucks" was not right. Apologies to DSL for misquoting him as well.

The document revision features are pretty good and on par with what you would expect from a great office suite.

Having said that, my preference is to thrash out ideas using plain text before committing them to either an office suite or markup. And I have no idea why I bothered sharing that thought since I am sure most people on the list worked that out way before I did.

Andrew Cowie wrote:
On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 02:07, Paul Shirren wrote:

DSL tells me merging OOo revisions suck 


I don't know that I'd characterize it as "sucks", but it is finicky, and
it is pretty easy to screw up till you get the hang of it.

Kinda like CVS branch merging is easy to screw up, come to think of it.

Ok, so I guess OOo version multi-user editing "sucks" ...

... but it does work.

Just wanted to say that. :)

More importantly, it also implies that the latest version of a document
is passed around on an exclusive lock basis. That can be an
organizational pain, to say the least. 

But for distributed collaboration, yeah, you're better off with an RCS
(assuming everyone on your team has access to such tools) or a web based
tool. I hate to say it, but go patch! (as implemented in cvs / svn / tla
etc).

AfC

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