Plain text library stacks

[David Bovill]

Great. I can now refactor all those libraries.
On Thu, 23 Apr 2015 at 11:44, Peter W A Wood <peterwawood at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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