Plain text library stacks

[Peter W A Wood]

Many thanks, Mark.

> On 23 Apr 2015, at 15:59, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2015-04-23 07:37, Peter W A Wood wrote:
>> Is it possible to load a Library stack in plan text format from another stack?
> 
> Yes - although we've not explicitly published details on the feature yet :)
> 
> However, if you want to play around with it then from the message box try:
> 
> create script only stack "MyLibraryStack"
> 
> Then
> 
> edit script of stack "MyLibraryStack"
> 
> You can save the stack in the normal way but the only thing it will save will be the stack script - the file on disk is just a UTF-8 text file.
> 
> We've been using this to great effect in the IDE where a good number of libraries and non-UI stacks are now script-only - the motivation being that they work in version control just like a lower-level language source file.
> 
> In addition with 6.7.5-rc-1 and 7.0.5-rc-1 we've added the ability for the behavior property to reference stacks - this has a nice synergy with script only stacks. (Before anyone asks - there are no plans to extend behaviors to any other object type at the moment, stack references were addable without a file format change hence why its occurred).
> 
> I should point out that the script-only-stacks are 'caveat scriptor' in the sense that the engine will only ever save the stack script when you save one, it will not warn you if you've put anything else beyond a stack script on the stack (whether it be custom properties or other objects), nor will it stop you from making it have anything beyond a stack script.
> 
> Warmest Regards,
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
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