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AMA: Christopher Downer, Designer at Sketch

almost 8 years ago from Christopher Downer, Designin’ Sketch

  • Allan White, almost 8 years ago

    It would be really interesting (though may be technically impossible, as I think sketch files are binaries) to imagine a sketch file format that was a package, with internal files that could be managed by something like Git. Even if a package format was possible, not sure if you'd get anything like object-level management. A very knotty challenge.

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    • Andrew CrockerAndrew Crocker, almost 8 years ago

      Funny you mention that: Sketch documents used to be package files within the last year-ish? Not sure of the reason they switched over to binaries.

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      • Christopher Downer, almost 8 years ago

        Sketch’s file format changed from a package in 3.1 because it caused a whole manner of issues when it came to sync services like Dropbox and Google Cloud. It was unfeasible to continue with this so we needed to make the change.

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        • Allan White, almost 8 years ago

          I'm pretty sure the iWork apps have been following this same trend (from packages to binaries). Just the problems caused by email apps & web servers seeing a folder instead of a file have been sufficient to drive developers away from it.

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