On or near 8/22/04 7:15 PM, Paul Berkowitz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > On 8/22/04 6:54 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On or near 8/22/04 4:57 PM, Beth Rosengard at [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> observed: >> >>> What about the Entourage website? >> >> To work, it would have to be website running on a Mac with Script Debugger >> installed, and some kind of script (Apple, PHP, Perl, Python) would have to >> be written to take the text of the input script, compile it in Script >> Debugger, and then mail the result to the submitter. >> >> The key part is having a site hosted on a Mac with Script Debugger >> installed. That's why I suggested Late Night Software (who produce SD). I >> would not be willing to open my Mac to outside traffic in that way, and I >> doubt Paul would either. > > I think Beth may have meant just for posting pre-compiled scripts for > download. I have no idea whether the Entourage website could cope with being > a download host. Anyone who ever tried to download from the former > AppleScript Central web site will remember what a hassle that could be due > to limited hosting and download capabilities. Whereas I haven't heard of a > single person ever having any trouble with Macscripter.net since they took > over. > > Both Allen and I and I think Barry too have iDisks. We could post our own > compiled scripts with Script Editor creator codes in "QuickScripts" > directories. They's have no documentation like our formal script packages, > and we could just leave them up for a week or so. (After that, people who > downloaded would not now what the scripts were for without documentation and > would write us to ask, which would be even more bother.) That might work.
Hell, Paul, I have dozens of scripts on my website with no documentation, and nobody every writes me about them. Of course probably no one downloads them either! I just copied my entire Entourage Script Menu Items folder tree up there one day. I'm not holding myself up as an model by any means! You are really good about documenting your stuff; I just never find the time. I have a couple of fairly complex and useful sets of scripts I've never posted because I never got around to documenting them, and they really need it to be useful to others. But with the short one-offs such as those we post to the list, I don't think you need to worry about being deluged with requests for information if you leave them on your iDisk. Post a "Use as is" notice telling people you won't respond to requests for more information...and you'll probably never hear from anyone. Twice you've mentioned modifying the scripts with a Script Editor creator code. I'm not sure I understand why; is it so people can double-click and open the script to read it? Surely they can't _modify_ it because of the very problem we're discussing. Or is there some other reason it has to have that "ToyS" creator code? -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
