I think this is a really smart move by the Xojo team. Specifically:
All Xojo Lite licenses can now use the text project file format for better compatibility with version control systems such as Git and Subversion. This should make it much easier for people to share and contribute to open-source projects on services such as GitHub and GitLab.
The absence of “text project format” support in Xojo Lite licenses always felt like an artificial constraint to me; one which made Xojo a less inviting platform for new developers to try out.
Cheers to the Xojo team and Geoff for making this change!
Anthony
I also welcome this change. Makes Xojo MUCH more attractive, even for experienced Developers which never considered using it before, because creating open sourced project was not so easy using a starter License.
Thank you. I really believe this is great News for everybody.
As a macOS Lite user, I can confirm all three save options are now available (yeh!) and appears to successfully save to a single XML project file, or multiple plain-text files (super yeh!)
Excuse me for the silly question but I read many times “Version Control”. Whats is it? The format in which we can save a Xojo project (“Xojo Binary project” or “Xojo XML project” or “Xojo Project”)?
In most cases this means the Xojo Project (Text) Format, sometimes also the Xojo XML Project Format. And the version control systems mentioned include Git, SVN and similar.
I have never managed to use a software versioning system. I tried with git. very complicated! terrible experience! I think I understand more complicated things, but beyond the commands, the very concept of how you can think of going forward/backward on small pieces of code is out of reach for me!
I had tried with git… zero results! I was about to destroy an entire large project (fortunately, realizing I didn’t understand anything, I had made a manual backup copy)
maybe I should find something to read about the basic concepts first… branch, pull, push… I’ve never been able to understand anything. I had tried several GUIs, the problem was never the use, but rather understanding what it means to use GIT and what its concepts are. I invested ENTIRE WEEKS, always without results.
so I gave up and proceeded to copy the folders by hand, before making major changes. Luckily I’m alone and I don’t have to share the project with anyone.
