I think what Mark meant was not to use "mc" but instead "MetaCard" as a whole word. to make it even more obvious.
On 30 Jun 2011, at 16:49, Ken Ray wrote: >> Using a prefix implies that there is the possibility of extending the MC IDE >> in the future and a potential getting-in-the-way. This is something we don't >> want. > > I clearly agree that the "getting in the way" is something we don't want, > but can you clarify what you mean by "extending the MC IDE"? > >> Although it isn't a big deal, I think that using a prefix like "mc" is very >> RunRev-like and not the right approach. Since the number of IDE stacks is >> supposed to stay at a minimum, a prefix should be unnecessary. If we ever >> need >> something like this, it would be nice to come up with a really clever and >> friendly solution. > > I'd *love* for there to be less IDE stacks - currently there are *70* > substacks of the Metacard Menu Bar stack. Granted that some of these are old > copies that can be deleted or are for dialogs to set really old settings, or > are copies of the Script Editor, but without some significant changes it's > not going to get much smaller. > > I think the issue is that until RunRev creates namespaces inside LC, the IDE > stacks should be renamed to get out of the way of the developer, at least > the more common ones like Preferences and Properties. The only issue with > only renaming *some* stacks is it becomes inconsistent, which is also a > pain. > > The good thing though is that unless one is working on tools to manipulate > the IDE itself, they shouldn't encounter the internal stack names of the IDE > stacks very often, so it may not matter what they get called as long as they > get out of the way. > > Just my 2 cents, > > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. > Email: k...@sonsothunder.com > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > metacard@lists.runrev.com > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list metacard@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard