"There Was a Problem Saving the Standalone Application"

[J. Landman Gay]

Dan Shafer wrote:
> Chipp......
> 
> Thanks. I can't find that in the docs. Needless to say, it'll be 
> prominently
> mentioned in a certain forthcoming ebook.
> 
> Sheesh. That's just stupidly unnecessary. File extensions are so last
> century.

To be fair, the reason isn't because we are supposed to use file 
extensions. It's because of naming conflicts. When the standalone 
builder does its thing, it makes a copy of the mainstack and names it 
the same name as the original, removing any existing extension first. If 
the original has no extension to begin with, the stack and the 
standalone will have the same name. The OS won't let you do that, so the 
build fails. Adding an extension -- anything, doesn't have to be ".rev" 
-- allows the original stack to retain a different name than the new 
standalone.

This is only an issue on Macs, really. Windows files almost always have 
extensions already.

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