Scott Collins <scc@ScottCollins.net> writes:
> I'm looking for advice and review :-)
>
> Projects I build under OS X destined for the Palm or for OS 9 still
> have resources. I use subversion for non-resource stuff with no
> problem, but it would be a win for me to use subversion for these
> projects as well.
>
> The basic idea in this experiment is to represent a Macintosh resource
> fork as a special property. The property is a write-through reflection
> of the resource fork data. I can explain the reasoning that led me to
> this choice if anyone cares. I've hooked in within libsvn_wc. I added
> a wcprop to remember the last time the resource-fork on disk and the
> value of the resource-fork property were known to be identical. I
> added no new options, commands, or syntax. I exploit OS X's magical
> file notation for addressing the resource fork as though it were a
> distinct but ordinary data file. You can put a file's resources under
> version control like so
>
> svn propset -F x/rsrc x
>
> In a working copy, this code successfully manages: changes to the
> resource fork from outside subversion; changes through propset; and can
> get the resource property checked into the repository.
>
> I wanted to get general opinions on whether I'm on the right track.
Considering that even Apple is discouraging the use of resource forks
in the future, I am -1 on putting this Mac OS X specific feature into
Subversion. Is there any reason (aside from the inconvenience) that
you couldn't use /Developer/Tools/DeRez when you stuff the resource
fork into your Subversion repository, and /Developer/Tools/Rez when
you pull it out?
I hope that this doesn't come across as too harsh--I appreciate the
need to handle resource forks, but don't see a good reason to muck up
a new piece of software with a feature to support something that is a)
platform specific, and b) deprecated.
-Fitz, certain that someone, somewhere is going to turn the above
paragraph around on him to shoot down the whole opaque collections
thing at some point in the future.
--
Brian W. Fitzpatrick <fitz_at_red-bean.com> http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/
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Received on Wed May 14 06:50:32 2003