emded revision control in Python application?

[duncan smith]

On 22/06/12 17:42, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 6/22/2012 8:58 AM duncan smith said...
>> Hello,
>> I have an application that would benefit from collaborative working.
>> Over time users construct a "data environment" which is a number of
>> files in JSON format contained in a few directories
>
> You don't say what your target platform is, but on linux I've done some
> testing with python-fuse that allows interception on file access to take
> whatever actions you like, in your case archive prior upon write.
>
> Might be worth a look.
>
> Emile
>

I develop on Linux, but most users would be running some flavour of 
Windows. Initially I'd like to get something up and running that would 
allow me to collaborate from an Ubuntu box at home with someone using a 
Windows machine (not sure which version) in an office at the University 
of Manchester. The most likely end users would (probably) be running 
Windows machines on a local network with no internet access.

I expect it would generally be possible to have an always-on server, but 
I'm also thinking about peer to peer style communication (information 
might not always be completely available, but it's better than being 
totally unaware of changes being made by others).

I don't have much experience getting applications to communicate across 
a network, particularly in a reasonably secure fashion. Someone I know 
also suggested RabbitMQ. Any pointers that help me to reduce the options 
to a manageable number of candidates will be appreciated. A shallow 
learning curve would also be good (given that ATM this is an idea I want 
to try out rather than paid work). I am looking at fuse at the moment. 
Thanks.

Duncan