Richmond Mathewson wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
Wilhelm Sanke wrote:
This may have been already noticed here, I just want to make sure:
The Rev "Standalone" files - necessary to build standalones - of
versions 4 dp3 and dp4 do not work with the Metacard Standalone
Builder. Version 3.5 does.
Mark Waddingham mentioned to me some time ago that the MC SB will need
rewriting. I sent him a copy of the current MC builder script and he
said it wouldn't be hard to rewrite -- but that's the last I heard.
Um, why do I have the feeling that rewriting the MC SB is not on the top
of Mark Waddingham's to-do list?
It probably isn't, and needn't be: standalone building is now just
another engine command. We've been doing the much harder job of
maintaining the scripted standalone building implementation; I would
imagine it will be much simpler once RunRev hands off the argument list
to Klaus or myself. It needn't take any of Mr. Waddingham's time at all.
MC is rapidly becoming an interface that is so crude it is increasingly
difficult to access the burgeoning new features being introduced into
the RunRev engine.
The nature of your communications here raises the question of why you're
here. You've made your point quite clearly and more than once; you can
rest assured we get it.
Consider it merely a matter of personal taste if that helps.
Having said that, seemingly hypocritically, I will request an MC license
number when the final version of
RunRev 4 comes out; even if only to fiddle around with MC's GUI (if I
can find the time).
No need; there are no MC license numbers anymore. Mark Waddingham did a
brilliant thing with Rev 2.7 which made their investment in the engine
more secure while simplifying the work of making custom IDEs: they went
back to engine-based licensing as Raney used to do.
But unlike Raney, their license restrictions are time-based rather than
scriptLimits-based, so they had to put that logic into the engine.
And they did so beautifully: the engine requires a valid licensed Rev
install, but once that's in place you can make any IDE you want. The
engine is able to verify the license key on its own, so the overhead for
them and their MC-fan customers of maintaining two different license
keys is a thing of the past. Simple, flexible, secures RunRev's
interests -- truly a win-win for all. They get paid, you get freedom.
What's not to love? :)
Has anybody tried using the RunRev 4 dp4 SB with MC?
Until the standalone API is delivered I can't.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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