Re[6]: [GEN] Template Handler
> Thomas,
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> I can think of these problems, though:
> 1. there is a possibility/likelihood of duplicate filenames with different
> people submitting various template files, not sure exactly how to handle
> that;
Maybe encouraging version numbers in the filenames would go some way
to helping with that... Of course it wouldn't really matter what the
files were called, but I guess it would be a bit of a pain for the
user to have to rename files before placing them in the directory.
> 2. it ends up putting potentially lots of little files on peoples drives
> instead of a smaller number of larger files. Of course, the user could
> relatively easily manually combine files of identical categories into one
> file, but I'd hoped to make that kind of thing unnecessary. Or I could make
> the handler discern when there are multiple files of the same category, and
> ask the user if they want them combined into one file, maybe.
I'm not sure that's such a bad thing, depends how many it gets to be I
guess :)
> 3. and there's a kind of "general" problem of how would a user easily know
> which templates are really new and which might they already have, perhaps in
> a file with a different name or something; I really want to make the process
> of adding (& fixing buggy templates!) *very* easy for the user.
Maybe each template should have a identifier (name) and version
number, if 2 clash then the one with the highest version number is
used. Would be cool to have an option to see older versions :)
> But other than that it sounds like a good, simple idea which I should be
> able to implement fairly easily (& that's a big plus too!).
>
> I'll probably give it a try, thanks!
It's so easy to make suggestions when your not the one who has to
implement them :)
> Dan
Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
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