On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 7:24 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> >> > The deficiency isn't in the messaging system, but the monolithic file >> structure. The only reason I got into this is the staggering amount of >> space being taken for each checkpoint. >> > > If it were as "trivial" as you suggest you should be able to write a > plugin to handle that in just a few minutes, yes? :) > I'm not saying the system would be trivial, but that what I want would be trivial in a reasonable IDE. > Which xTalks have you used with that capability which gave you the > expectation? > > This is the only one I've used since Supercard 1.5 in the late 90s. It's not that xTalks should have its, but that *anything* styling itself a development system has it. > Unique among xTalks, LiveCode does provide the ability to create > script-only stack files that are just plain text, perfectly suited for the > limitations of modern VCSes. Why not use that? > Actually, this is the first I've heard of that. That would solve large portions of my concerns. > > For binary stack files, Monte's lcVCS is being used in production on a > number of projects. Perhaps it may be well suited for yours as well. > > I understand that it's there, but everything I've read so far suggests that it is labor intensive--and that Monte misdoing what livecode *should* have done many years ago. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ 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
