Nice. 

Bob S


> On Mar 7, 2015, at 09:52 , Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> I recently learned that the Save As option in v7 is even smarter than I'd 
> thought:
> 
> Most of us already know it allows us save our stack files in any format we 
> like, using the current v7 format by default or any legacy version going back 
> more than a decade.
> 
> But Mark Waddingham recently mentioned a detail about it that I didn't now 
> before: the IDE's Save As goes further, setting a 
> cREVGeneral["stackFileVersion"] custom property in your stack, so that all 
> subsequent saves by the IDE in v7 will save in whatever format you last 
> specified in the Save As dialog.
> 
> In short, when migrating work to v7 in which you need to maintain 
> compatibility with older engines, you only need to select the older format in 
> Save As once, and from then on any save done by the IDE will use the format 
> you'd specified.
> 
> Super-convenient.  Almost no reason not to be at least testing in v7. :)
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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