Ahh, thanks for that info monte. I am on windows here too so that would definitely keep me from getting running with it and that is a very tricky problem indeed to solve without a lot of re-engineering of the whole system.
Let me know if I can help test anything on windows or there is anything specific I could contribute to. Kind regards, Andrew On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Monte Goulding <mo...@sweattechnologies.com > wrote: > > On 13/09/2013, at 12:25 AM, Andrew Kluthe <and...@ctech.me> wrote: > > > I was going to contact Monte off list but I thought the info might be > > useful to others. > > > > I wanted to give your lcVCS a try on a couple of stacks to see how it > does. > > When I go to the github page I download the repo but I think the repo > > itself is just the lcVCS code being stored by lcVCS. > > > > Is there anywhere I can get my hands on the plugin and maybe a little > info > > on how to get started beyond the readme on the github page? > > Previously I had the lcVCS stackFiles in the repo as a way to deliver them > but they have been removed now that I have a project file based system that > builds them directly into your plugins folder. It's a bit of a chicken and > an egg thing though because you need the stackFiles first but from then on > you can update via the repo. > > I emailed them to Rolf the other day and I should put them up on mergExt > but I've just discovered a fairly big issue for using it on Windows that I > need to do some significant changes to resolve. After the changes the > exports wouldn't be compatible so I'm hesitant to get too many people using > it right now. The problem is windows can't handle paths longer than 260 > chars and deeply nested groups can create really long paths in lcVCS > because there's heaps of nested folders named with UUIDs. It's annoying > because it's starting to get pretty slick and possibly turning into an open > source project delivery system using a GitHub search feature. > > So the question is whether I should ignore the issue on Windows for now > and share what I have done openly with some docs or fix it first. > > Cheers > > -- > Monte Goulding > > M E R Goulding - software development services > mergExt - There's an external for that! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Regards, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode