Free or Cheap Graphical FTP/ Editor for concurrent development (FILE LOCKING SHARING)

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Hello all.

We are looking for a free or cheap and simple remote site editor for
Windows that will allow 3 developers at different sites to work on the
same web pages. The editor should allow them to remain connected and
even have the working sources open, but when a source is updated,
(somehow) the software will know to let anybody know that it's changed
(either or right before they update that versions don't match. Is this
too tall of an order for cheap/free software.

I've download a few nice products, but all products allow you to
blindly update with the local file, with no regard to source having
changed on you - and resulting in lost work.

Many thanks for any help or information.
 
Hello all.

We are looking for a free or cheap and simple remote site editor for
Windows that will allow 3 developers at different sites to work on the
same web pages. The editor should allow them to remain connected and
even have the working sources open, but when a source is updated,
(somehow) the software will know to let anybody know that it's changed
(either or right before they update that versions don't match. Is this
too tall of an order for cheap/free software.
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I'm not even aware of commercial software thats capable of this, let alone
freeware.

I've download a few nice products, but all products allow you to
blindly update with the local file, with no regard to source having
changed on you - and resulting in lost work.
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Why on earth would you want more than one person working on any one page at
a time???

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
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Hello all.

We are looking for a free or cheap and simple remote site editor for
Windows that will allow 3 developers at different sites to work on the
same web pages. The editor should allow them to remain connected and
even have the working sources open, but when a source is updated,
(somehow) the software will know to let anybody know that it's changed
(either or right before they update that versions don't match. Is this
too tall of an order for cheap/free software.
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You probably are looking for CVS? (as used in open-source programs).

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Steven said:
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I'm not even aware of commercial software thats capable of this, let
alone freeware.
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there is one i know of: said:
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Why on earth would you want more than one person working on any one
page at a time???
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If you are developping very large sites, or if you have specialised tasks
(e.g. a java scripter and a php specialist and a layout designer or
something a like) then it could become handy. Also, I you need to beat a
deadline, some extra help could come handy.

At my previous job, I tried this feature out with Dreamweaver. I didn't like
it very much, but it is workable.

As for an answer to the question of the OP:
I don't think there are any freeware. In fact dreamweaver is the only one I
know of, but I guess there are more.

MightyKitten
 
Hello all.

We are looking for a free or cheap and simple remote site editor for
Windows that will allow 3 developers at different sites to work on the
same web pages. The editor should allow them to remain connected and
even have the working sources open, but when a source is updated,
(somehow) the software will know to let anybody know that it's changed
(either or right before they update that versions don't match. Is this
too tall of an order for cheap/free software.

I've download a few nice products, but all products allow you to
blindly update with the local file, with no regard to source having
changed on you - and resulting in lost work.

Many thanks for any help or information.
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Hi,
Visit http://www.crimsoneditor.com and see if Crimson Editor may do
what you want.

I use it for editing Web Pages, and other text files. If the local
file gets changed from another program, it pops up a message box
stating "The file has been modified outside. Do you want to reload
it?"

It does not do this when working on a file from an FTP site, only
local, or network, drives.

Joe
 
Steven Burn said:
Why on earth would you want more than one person working on any one page at
a time???
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Most shops don't have the luxury of dividing development work and
support by logical boundries anymore. Work is thrown at resources
however, whenever ... people take vacations, are out sick or are just
not around when you need a quick fix. And of course .. Failure to
communicate is always an issue in a busy shop.

I actually wrote a simple web based editor I use - written in asp.net
with javascript to do functions like find/replace and keep cursor
position on page refreshes. It's not fancy, but works great. I am now
considering adding the logic to refuse a SAVE (without another GET) if
some other session (by IP) saved after the last GET.
 
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