Comparing two versions of a RunRev app

Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com
Sun Feb 5 14:59:48 EST 2006


Hi Graham,

Instead of renaming anything, I'm used to open two different  
instances of Rev.
That's all :-)

Easy on Windows and just a clone in your app folder with Mac OS.

Le 5 févr. 06 à 20:56, graham samuel a écrit :

> Given the well-known limitation of RR in that stack names are not  
> fully scoped but have to be unique within the whole IDE, how would  
> I set about comparing two versions of an app containing a mainstack  
> and several substacks? My main idea would be to compare versions of  
> scripts, but I'd also like to do a visual comparison of cards etc.  
> To clarify the idea, suppose I have a stack and substacks like
>
> MyMainStack
>   MySubstack1
>   MySubstack2
>   ...
>   MySubstackn
>
> and I have two .rev files, each with a different version of the  
> app, say the latest, which has shown itself to be a bit flaky, and  
> an older one, which was stable but lacked certain functionality. I  
> want to look at the differences between the two, and maybe transfer  
> some code or controls from one to the other. To effect ANY  
> comparison, I want to have two versions of each stack and substack  
> in the machine at the same time, but this isn't possible.
>
> Has anyone any suggestions about how to do the comparisons?

Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet
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