License for coopyhx? about daff

[paulfitz]

Hi @audreyt, excited to hear from you - I'm a big fan of your work. Added a license, very open to making it as liberal as needs be. Would love to see this stuff in wider use!

[audreyt]

Great! Thanks for the prompt response — I'll see what I can do and keep you posted.

The first step is probably packaging it up so it can be uploaded to npm as a standalone coopyhx package. If you have some cycles please do so, otherwise I'll confer with @clkao and stake a stab at it.

[paulfitz]

@audreyt I've published a bare-bones npm package for coopyhx to get started.

[audreyt]

Awesome, much thanks! The intended use case for ethercalc is to display a sidebar of activity diffs, in the style of Quip:

[paulfitz]

Sounds great! There'd need to be some changes to work from a log of tracked changes, like SocialCalc's audit trail, rather than a comparison of before/after snapshots of a table. But the end result would be a lot more efficent, especially when the user is just changing a few cells. There are other issues to work through as well - your tables are free-form, with no special header convention, and have styling. I think coming up with a good fallback for awkward tables with no clear header, repeated rows and spacing rows/columns of various kinds would be a priority, and you might want to play with coopyhx's behavior in such cases to get a clear view of its current state.