On Oct 30, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Charles Srstka wrote: > On Oct 30, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Martin Hewitson wrote: > >> Dear list, >> >> Has anyone given any thought as to how to use Versions with an editor app >> which manages files? Consider an app like Xcode. Is it conceivable to have >> Versions for Xcode? Of course you could have Versions for the Xcode project >> file, but what about the source code files? How would they be handled? I'm >> guessing that since Xcode doesn't implement Versions that the technology is >> not well suited for such an app. > > To follow up on my earlier post a bit, Xcode *does* support Versions, as > you’ll see if you play with it a bit. Make a change to a source file, don’t > save, let it sit for a few seconds, and then examine the source file with the > ‘more’ program in the Terminal, and you’ll see that your change has indeed > been autosaved. Also, if you open a source file or a .xib file in TextEdit, > you’ll be able to browse all the versions that have been created by Xcode. > The only thing missing in Xcode is an *interface* for Versions. Now, one > could argue that since Xcode has built-in support for git and svn, Versions > support isn’t necessary, and you’d probably be right. For a similar type of > application that doesn’t have built-in source control, though, it might be a > handy thing, and if it turns out there’s an API somewhere to get at the data > of a version, then you’d be able to do whatever you want. Unfortunately, I > haven’t been able to find any such API, but it’s possible I’ve missed > something, since searching for “Versions” is something that’s inherently > going to turn up a ton of false positives.
And, upon a little further inspection, although there’s no method to get to the data, there is the URL property on NSFileVersion, which you can read via the standard file-reading APIs to get the data and roll your own Versions interface. So, this should be very much possible. Charles_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
