A tip when using externals and cloning stacks

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/13/03 8:51 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote:

> Just thought I'd save someone else days of searching
> and experimenting by handing out this tip 

Loading externals has been iffy for more than one of my projects, and 
remains a perpetual problem. I've found that externals will load fine on 
my machine, but not on a client's machine with an identical setup. And 
using externals from a substack or a separate stack, as you found, 
doesn't always work either. My results with externals have been frustrating.

I've entered an enhancement request into Bugzilla asking that Rev add a 
command that will dynamically load externals via script. This would 
circumvent all the various problems many of us are having, because we 
could choose to load the platform-specific external as needed instead of 
relying on the current setup which depends on many factors, such as the 
defaultFolder and some kind of magic when a stack opens.

Tuviah has agreed to add this capability in a future version -- which is 
great news for me, and which should fix the problem for most of us once 
and for all. I hope it gets added soon.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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