Proposed stack name changes for the MC IDE

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Ken,

Using a prefix implies that there is the possibility of extending the MC IDE in the future and a potential getting-in-the-way. This is something we don't want.

I think that simply calling these stacks "MetaCard Something" makes a friendlier impression. People who need to deal with plug-ins probably already have found a solution (e.g. checking the effective filename). 

Although it isn't a big deal, I think that using a prefix like "mc" is very RunRev-like and not the right approach. Since the number of IDE stacks is supposed to stay at a minimum, a prefix should be unnecessary. If we ever need something like this, it would be nice to come up with a really clever and friendly solution.

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On 30 jun 2011, at 15:33, Ken Ray wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> I just gave a presentation last weekend at the LiveCode Live event on the MC
> IDE and one of the things I brought up was the fact that a great benefit to
> the MC IDE vs the LiveCode IDE is that it really tries to "get out of the
> way of the developer."
> 
> And although it currently does a pretty good job of that, there are a few
> places that IMHO still need to be changed. The two that immediately come to
> mind are the Preferences and Properties stacks, both of which prevent you as
> a developer from being able to name *your* stacks "Preferences" or
> "Properties", and there are probably other stack name conflicts as well.
> 
> For the next build of the IDE, I'd like to change the IDE stack names to
> have an "mc" prefix (like "mcPreferences"), but since this affects anything
> that runs as a plugin, etc., I wanted to bring it up for discussion first.
> 
> What are your thoughts on this? Good idea? Bad idea? ...?