[MisterTea]

Because the lunatics who wrote the software turned it into a stupid contraption where the source files are mummified in xml and entombed in a zip file or some other proprietary binary container. PLC coding standards should be taken out back one by one and shot twice in the head.

[LeifCarrotson]

As a Rockwell user, I can't agree more. But check out Copia Automation if you want to see an improvement to this problem.