Re: Is there some shape repository for dia ?

[Cyrille Chepelov <cyrille chepelov org>]

Le Tue, Aug 06, 2002, à 03:19:22PM -0500, Lars Clausen a écrit:

> > Why not "watching" the shape repository and load newcomers dynamically ?
> > WindowMaker can watch the changes in its config file. Why not Dia
> > watching for changes in its shape directory.
>
> I suppose it could do that.  But then we have a synchronization problem --
> we wouldn't want to load half-way written files.

we avoid files in .shape.dpkg-new, then. We can try games like lsof(1)'ing
the file (unless we need root), etc.

(and the equivalent for RPM).

        -- Cyrille

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