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[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Chris Hecker writes:

 > No, for the locking feature, a plugin is fine as long as it works 
 > seamlessly and robustly if it's installed.

OK, sorry for the confusion.

 > I think the "advances in merge technology with solve the locking 
 > problem" is a technological-solution-to-an-aesthetic-problem fantasy. 
 > There is no tool for the next 50+ years that will merge two textures to 
 > an artist's satisfaction

No, of course not.  But I don't think any kind of locking is going to
solve that kind of problem either (except maybe if the locks are on
the *outside* of separate carrels, and only the manager has the key!)

Also, it's rare that any reasonably large automatic merge comes off
to a programmer's satisfaction, you know.  The point is to get close
enough that the tweaking takes an hour rather than a day.  I know that
"artists" tend to classify things into "my work", "acceptable", and
"my eyes were about to dissolve out of their sockets", but perhaps
automatic merges can come close enough to "acceptable" to save time.