From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: GSoC: collaborative editing Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:29:04 +0900 Message-ID: <87ljq3u20v.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <87ab6ngdjb.fsf@tunes.org> <873acclilz.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <87ws9odt9v.fsf@tunes.org> <87vdp8szuq.fsf@xemacs.org> <87vdp7dgs7.fsf@tunes.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239693908 30970 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2009 07:25:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:25:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Brian Templeton Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 14 09:26:26 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ltd2F-0004wN-Ke for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:26:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47746 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ltd0q-0001ry-Og for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:24:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ltd0m-0001rs-37 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ltd0h-0001rG-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:24:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45278 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ltd0g-0001rD-T9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:24:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:27028) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ltd0g-0004XB-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:24:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.223]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ltd0e-0008AR-9m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 03:24:44 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id E707C1535B3; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:24:29 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AAE851A25C4; Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:29:04 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <87vdp7dgs7.fsf@tunes.org> X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:110264 Archived-At: Brian Templeton writes: > Most P2P algorithms *do* impose a total order on operations; it's just > more difficult to maintain that order. Excuse me? How do you do that when you may not currently be in contact with all the peers who are operating on the text?