"There Was a Problem Saving the Standalone Application"

[J. Landman Gay]

I said:
> 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.
> 

On second thought -- the standalone gets built into a different folder 
so it can't be a Finder thing. I remember reading about the reason here, 
and that it had something to do with naming conflicts, but I guess the 
rest went fuzzy.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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