using Distribution Builder's "Save Distribution As..." option

[Howard Bornstein]

On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 02:16 PM, Alex Rice wrote:

> Who is using the DB "Save Distribution As..." option? How do you deal 
> with Revolution upgrades?


Poorly. In my experience, saved distribution files often won't work 
across Rev versions. IMHO, the mechanism for setting up rev 
distributions is flawed. They should be like documents, each document 
storing a set of distribution parameters. Thus, the file menu should 
have a New Distribution menu item. Currently, you have to choose 
"revert to default settings" to start fresh and then you may still have 
to change some data. How intuitive is that?

I just brought up a saved distribution file and it had its data merged 
with some of the information that was in the existing distribution 
stack.

Most of the time, I rebuild a distribution stack from scratch--a big 
waste of time that shouldn't be necessary.


Regards,

Howard Bornstein
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