Confirming a thing about IDs

[Geoff Canyon]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:36 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 10/11/2018 02:19 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> > Mutable, as in the engine or IDE change it without user interaction???
>
> No, you have to work at it explicitly. I'm sorry to say that I pushed
> for this some years ago in a misguided assumption that this would help
> advance the cause of version control. That allowed me to reconstruct
> objects from script, then Monte came up with a different and better
> solution, and then they both got rejected. So now you can assign and
> change object ids and it still won't do you any good.
>

There have been multiple export/import functions written (I wrote one of
the first, about 15(?) years ago). Granted that it's not the integrated
solution you would hope for, how does it fall short of allowing version
control of project configuration?