The binary format is an artifact of the days when the CW IDE ran on Mac OS machines that have similar specs to top-of-the-line Palm OS 4.1 boxes. It made sense then, especially in the early-90's, binary-friendly Mac OS world. It doesn't work well now, and we are working on replacing binary projects with a text-based format for a future IDE release; there are a lot of issues to solve in order to get this going, not the least of which is ten years worth of IDE plugins and pref panels that are built around a binary format, where each pref panel stores blobs of data that the plugins retrieve and interpret as a whole.<minorRant> Now if only CodeWarrior would drop the .mcp file in favor of a text based file, so you could do merges, diffs and hand edit that file. I'll never understand why programming tools use binary files as their source files. Do you not check your source into SCC? </minorRant>
We've heard many rants, and we are well aware of the need for this. In the meantime, feel free to only store XML-exported versions of your projects in your version control system.
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Ben Combee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
Palm OS programming help @ www.palmoswerks.com
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