Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

[David Bovill]

Interestingly - one of the side effects of the file based export of large
stacks for Git repos - is that the monolythic stack gets digested into
chunks - this can make it much easier to re-engineer as a lean stack that
reads and writes to text files.

Also GIT deals very very well with hundreds or even thousands of text files
- I've had to scale down my LiveCode repo as it involves many thousands of
text files - (every handler I have ever written is saved as a single text
file) - but even then a single repo is manageable.

On 6 February 2013 14:51, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The biggest project I have ever seen consisted of one 4 GB stack. Due to
> its size, it was impossible to make a standalone of it :-) I guess such
> projects aren't optimally organised for GIT.
>
>
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>
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 2/6/2013 15:40, Colin Holgate wrote:
>
>> Surely LiveCode itself is made up of lots of files, that can work with
>> GIT perfectly well? Do stacks have to have that ability right away? Won't
>> most open source big LiveCode applications be made of lots of stacks and
>> external files, giving you a certain amount of modularity, even if
>> individual stacks are updated as a single file?
>>
>>
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