09-26-2005, 04:07 AM
Quote:So once we have two updaters, there is a risk of accidentally overwriting changes made by the other updater unless both always update their offline copies. The only other option would be not to keep an offline copy at all (so that you'd have to download all pages you would like to change, edit them and then re-upload them).Just noting, there are such things as revision control systems. One of these could be used to make sure each and every updater saw the others' changes. For example, CVS won't let you commit your own changes to the central repository until your local copy is absolutely up-to-date with the repository, and so everyone has to have the most recent version of the site (or whatever your writing) in order to update.