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Re: Re[6]: [GEN] Template Handler

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Sep 27, 2001
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Thomas,

You wrote:


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Parslow (PatRat)"



>
> > Thomas,
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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.

Yeah, I *don't* want people to have to rename files, especially if they're
from a zip!  The best solution I thought of so far is that Robert put all
user contributed templates into one folder for download, so if the file
names conflict he could change them right there, but that doesn't work if
they're already inside a zip, which they probably would be.  Maybe a
downloadable "list of already used template filenames", so contributors
could see what not to use, but then "email passing in the night" could mess
that up too, plus it puts an inappropriate burden on Robert to maintain such
a list.

>
> > 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 :)

Well, that a kind of a "reverse" problem:  there's no problem at all if
people don't submit templates, but that's a worse problem, from my
perspective!

>
> > 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 :)

Didn't want to have to do that, but may have to at least consider it.

>
> > 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 :)

Yeah!   :)

Thanks,

Dan



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