So by some fuckin sick joke of fate i've been tasked with making a Keynote Presentation. That's right. I'm a fuckin flash developer and I'm using a piece of software built by Apple, who outright HATES Adobe and all things Flash. So it would be nice to make a flash presentation (or slides of a presentation) and then import them into Keynote. That way flash content and keynote content could intermingle.
Hhahahahaha, i know its just a fuckin crazy idea, but it seems "the Jobs" does not want.
So lets just get down to the cold hard facts. I'm not using ANY flash at all. I'm just building layout in Keynote. So i start my project, import all my artwork, start building page masters... and then i save my first file and start up my SVN repository. You know, save it quick and early and commit file revisions as often as you can so you never lose any work if there's a crash or change or rollback or anything.
So here's the NON-rant.
The old Apple Paradigm of resource fork comes back. Its now just a package, but lets be fuckin honest, its just a resource fork. Keynote files LOOK like files but they're really each a package, and in each package they have ALL the contents of the presentation. So you take your little .key file and add it to a SVN repo and SVN does a nice little job of seeing ALL those little fuckin files it should see.
Add file... Commit file... keep working.
Make some changes. about an hour later i might as well commit a new rev.
Save file.... hmmm why is the file "Obstructed"?
Well when you save a Keynote file it completely rewrites the contents of the package, thus killing all the .svn files that are basic to subversion control.
Bottom line is... you have no way to use version control on a keynote file unless you ZIP the entire thing.
Lame apple.
