At 11:02 PM +0900 6/1/01, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>But I am confused about the relationship between Revolution
MetaCard corp produces MetaCard, which consists of: an underlying
engine which does the work, and a development environment which runs
on that engine. The development environment is just a set of stacks,
exactly like the ones you write. In fact, you can take a look at the
inner workings if you're curious (and bold) enough.
When you build a standalone, the resulting application contains only
the engine and your stacks (unless you've specified that some piece
of the dev environment be included, like the ask and answer stacks
for example).
Revolution is the exact same engine, with a different development
environment built on top. Again, the development environment is just
a set of stacks sitting on the engine. Revolution licenses the engine
from MetaCard.
So the visual effects being talked about in 2.4 will be in
Revolution, but shortly after they are released in MetaCard.
The advantage of Revolution is the development environment. One of
the advantages of MetaCard is somewhat sooner access to the latest
version of the engine. This delay is being magnified right now
because of the beta/1.0 status of Revolution -- hopefully in the
future we won't see a version collision like this. :-)
Regards,
Geoff
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