On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:13:55 +0000, Geoffrey Carman wrote:
> I think this has been happening for a while, and that iMan and Designer
> both do it.
That wouldn't surprise me, but I don't use iManager.
> Look at any driver export done via Designer or iMan and you should the
> library objects all represented there.
Ah, but with Designer, it's an option. They *ask* you if you want the
externals exported. What they don't do, but should, is:
a) limit the externals to those actually referenced by the driver being
exported
b) fix the import so that it warns before changing something that exists
in the target
> So key question for Designer is, if you read the Deploy summary page,
> showing teh diffs, does it show the Libraries as diffs, or silently just
> updates them?
I don't recall one way or the other. I'll see if I can test that, though.
The deploy *should* show what's being changed, and I'm normally very
picky about reading the pre-deploy summary to make sure that it's not
missing any changes that I'm expecting it to make, so I'm surprised that
I would have missed this.
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