Concurrent development

[Morley Chalmers]

Some modern programming environments support concurrent development. That is, two or more programmers access a set of files from a server and work simultaneously to modify the code. I'm not talking about doing development work while end users are active.

Is this possible in the current release of FMP? If so, what's involved?

Kind regards,

[bcooney]

Yes, it's possible. You do get a bit in each other's way, but it's not too much of an obstacle. We host our files on a FMS. However, you can just use peer-to-peer, but you'd need to quit to do backups.

[Morley Chalmers]

Yes, it's possible. You do get a bit in each other's way, but it's not too much of an obstacle. We host our files on a FMS. However, you can just use peer-to-peer, but you'd need to quit to do backups.

Excellent good news. Will be essential for our development model.

Appreciated.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

[color:red]Use extreme caution when doing this. If you lose the connection for some reason, it very likely will toast the entire relationship graph. Also, you can induce some intresting locks on one another's work if you are not careful.

Steven

[Fitch]

If you host with FM Server and work over a LAN, it works very well. Two people can't modify the same layout or the same script at the same time, but how often would you want to do that?