Problem with copy groups in standalones

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Aug 18 14:48:58 EDT 2010


J. Landman Gay wrote:

> If this were a preference instead, then we'd just have to explain the
> reason for it all over again and nothing would be gained. There are some
> concepts that developers just have to know, and this one is universal on
> any platform using any development tool.
>
> Rev does provide a bit of automation for this though. The standalone
> builder has the option to move substacks out of the stackfile and into
> separate files. (But even that has to be re-explained repeatedly.)

That's probably enough.

This is rarely a problem for folks other than those coming from a 
HyperCard background, because the older Classic OS separated executable 
code in the resource fork from the data in the data fork.

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