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

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Sep 28, 2001
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Hi Dan,
I'm not sure if I really understand this Template concept. What problem is
it solving? What is it good for?
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Derek.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Moyer" <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Re[6]: [GEN] Template Handler


>
> 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
>
>
> > > Dan
> >
> > Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
> > Rat Software
> > http://www.rat-software.com/
> > Please leave quoted text in place when replying
>
>
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