Planned changes for b9

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> Win only
>> [ ] Save windows "Version Info" into a custom property of the stack 
>> to-be-saved...
> 
> Well...no. I'd rather see the text file. In general, I don't like the 
> IDE messing around with my stacks. Chances are good that I will open up 
> a stack later on, see a property I don't remember putting there, not 
> know what it is for, and not know what to do with it. I don't like when 
> that happens. I don't mind loading a text file though, and I think this 
> would be a handy feature. Right now I do the same thing, only I keep the 
> settings all together in a stack I made just for that purpose.

As long as the rest of the Standalone Builder doesn't change it won't 
affect me one way or another, as I have my own auto-build system in place.

I use a custom prop myself for build settings -- in the first card of 
the mainstack, leaving the stack itself entirely free for the developer. 
  I often have routines that get the keys of a stack and do stuff with 
them, so if it must be a property I would prefer it be in the card, 
which is not used for custom props as often.

A text file might be extra handy if the tool maintained a list of which 
text files go with which stack files -- load the stack file and the 
build settings could be loaded automatically.

The only downside to text files is that they must either be manually 
loaded or risk losing their association with the target stack.

However, I do feel strongly about the IDE not setting any custom props 
in a user's stacks (my personal builder is separate from the IDE); this 
has been the source of much confusion and error in the Rev IDE, and 
frankly if they had it to do over again I'm not sure they'd use that 
approach.

So if we do make this one exception we should first ask the user if 
that's what they want to do.

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  Richard Gaskin
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