I would prefer something that is easily human readable. Xml might work as long as the scripts and object properties are presented in a clear and readable enough fashion.
I know that my teams have spent many hours going thru diffs in different version of software looking to find exactly what revision and change introduced a problem. -= Mike Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -----Original Message----- From: Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> Sender: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 15:37:11 To: How to use LiveCode<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Reply-To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Subject: Re: Recreating a binary stack from xml text Mike- Saturday, February 18, 2012, 2:43:07 PM, you wrote: > I think the real intent is to get a livecode application into a > format where you can use standard configuration management tools to > store versions and track differences. In theory if the components > were broken out separately, then you could have multiple people > working on the same app at the same time. Exactly. > I believe as long as the source is text, then all of source > management systems that I am aware of will work. XML is just text > so it should be fine. Most of these system can deal with binary > blobs and they just rev stamp them. So images and media are still > manageable. Nothing particularly special about xml. It's bloated and ugly and machine-readable rather than human-readable. But it's hierarchical and it's text, so it's an easy format to deal with. Ideally for LiveCode purposes you want something that will display the xml storage data as a nicely formatted tree structure. > Not having the ability to manage the source code was the only > thing that prevented me from using livecode in my corporate life. > So I am excited to hear that others are interested as well. Yeah, it's a serious drawback. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
