Proposed stack name changes for the MC IDE

[Richard Gaskin]

On 6/30/11 6:33 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I just gave a presentation last weekend at the LiveCode Live event on the MC
> IDE and one of the things I brought up was the fact that a great benefit to
> the MC IDE vs the LiveCode IDE is that it really tries to "get out of the
> way of the developer."
>
> And although it currently does a pretty good job of that, there are a few
> places that IMHO still need to be changed. The two that immediately come to
> mind are the Preferences and Properties stacks, both of which prevent you as
> a developer from being able to name *your* stacks "Preferences" or
> "Properties", and there are probably other stack name conflicts as well.
>
> For the next build of the IDE, I'd like to change the IDE stack names to
> have an "mc" prefix (like "mcPreferences"), but since this affects anything
> that runs as a plugin, etc., I wanted to bring it up for discussion first.
>
> What are your thoughts on this? Good idea? Bad idea? ...?

I like it for several reasons:

1. "Preferences" is such a common name that not changing the IDE's stack 
name is too likely to result in conflict.

2. The proposed prefix solution follows RunRev's convention, long 
established and well understood.

3. It's simple to implement, and as a volunteer project I appreciate the 
impact on your time.

Thanks for taking that on -

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