I've never had that issue.

Post #307,855 by malraux 4/26/09 10:52:42 AM Reply	I've never had that issue. Of course, for the most part I don't try to put things other than text files in my SVN repositories. This is the first I've heard of documents saved as packages; I've only seen applications saved that way. It's a great format for apps because you just have to copy the directory to install the app. Many OS X apps don't have installers, per se: just a Finder dialog with a pointer to the app package and a soft link to /Applications. You drag the app icon to the Applications folder, and that's the whole installation. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #307,858 by pwhysall 4/26/09 12:54:16 PM 4/26/09 1:01:37 PM Reply	iWork documents are packages. ETA: Oh, yes. I see now that Pages is mentioned. Hmm. I'm undecided on whether this is actual breakage or not; I've come to notice (especially from using things like VMS) is the UNIX mantras of "everything's a file" and "everything's plain text" are a bit simple for the real world. I'm unclear, though, on the benefits of structuring documents in this way. Surely if there's lots of metadata and wotnot to maintain, some kind of container file à la OpenOffice.org would be in order? Edited by pwhysall April 26, 2009, 01:01:37 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #307,859 by drook 4/26/09 1:19:41 PM Reply	IMO it's not breakage I wouldn't use vim to edit video files. That's not the right app for that filetype. So if an OSX package is not something that can be handled by Subversion, I just need to know that. -- Drew
Post #307,863 by pwhysall 4/26/09 2:00:45 PM Reply	Idiot! You use emacs, of course.
Post #307,866 by drook 4/26/09 3:31:22 PM Reply	No, of course I don't -- Drew
Post #307,868 by malraux 4/26/09 4:15:46 PM Reply	Seems silly to me. Just use a file. With the meta data in it. Then you're not breaking things like svn. I can see the benefit from the programmer's aspect, obviously. They don't need to worry about file formats, rejiggering things if they insert sections, etc. Just have a separate file for everything you want to keep track of. And more than likely they don't really care if someone can stick an iWork document in a source code repository. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
Post #307,870 by pwhysall 4/26/09 4:30:26 PM 4/26/09 4:30:45 PM Reply	Well, quite. Why not do all that and then zip it up? That's what oo.o does. Weird. ETA: I know why not. Spotlight, that's why. Edited by pwhysall April 26, 2009, 04:30:45 PM EDT Expand All History

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