Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
- Subject: Re: FileMerge can't merge xibs?
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:37:49 -0700
On Oct 17, 2008, at 7:58 AM, j o a r wrote:
Perhaps I'm missing something, but it seems odd to me that one
would try to use FileMerge merge .xib's in the first place; I
thought .xib's hold the GUI elements of a program, wouldn't it be
very difficult to manipulate that auto-generated code using
FileMerge..?
Interface Builder doesn't generate code, it writes out a serialized
object graph. That said, I don't think it's unreasonable at all to
at least *expect* to be able to use FileMerge on n/xib files.
Comparing and merging files is a core activity for developers, and I
think that you are right to expect it to work for all of the basic
file formats used for developing apps for our platforms. It
currently doesn't, and that's unfortunate.
An XML merge is not the same as a text merge. For instance indentation
only has meaning in a text node unless you're dealing with the infoset
directly (not the case here). And, as was previously mentioned, xibs
haven't shed themselves of certain arcane relationship strategies.
Philip Aker
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