Subject: Re: Subject: Re: On Plasmate's recent project list

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenhoe86 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about performing a sort of sha1sum for each project file, and use it
>> to perform a check when restoring a backup ?
>> So, if we find two identical packages names with different hashes, we
>> could prompt a dialog with the name of the package with an "overwrite"
>> checkbox and a "details" button to give more infos about the projects. (
>> That's reptty rough I know, so what about your opinion?)
>>
>
> Nonono I don't think we need anything half as complicated as that. Like I
> said, folder names are not visible to the user so we can rename it to
> anything we want. The following simple algorithm should work:
>
> for each folder f in import archive {
>     while f also exists in the target location {
>        generate a new name for f and rename f in the archive;
>     }
> }
> extract archive to target location;
>

What about giving the user a choice when a duplicate is found? As a user, I
wouldn't like the software to create two copies of the same project (maybe
different versions of it) and then me having to delete one of them. Lets
just give a "Overwrite, Rename, Skip" option.
What do you guys think ?


> The user won't know (and doesn't need to know anyway) that any renaming has
> occurred, he will always end up with exactly all his current projects plus
> all the projects in the import archive at the end of the process. If this
> happens to create any duplicates (it shouldn't if he uses it right, but in
> case he doesn't), he could easily delete one of them off. Nice and clean.
>
> I think this is easier and also more elegant and non-intrusive :) I did
> something similar for importing individual projects, so I can implement this
> if you guys don't have objections.
>
>
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>
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