Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-10 Thread Robert Brenstein
Related to that: Would it be possible to mirror the IDE stack files somewhere, where a program can download them (maybe ask runrev for a bit of space on their server?)? Additionally, is it possible not to use zip files (because that needs the zip.dll)? I recommend plain stack files, maybe gz,

Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I guess we should have coordinated this better, but Richard only asked me yesterday. :( Maybe you and he can sort it out, and if you want, I'm happy to step down. I don't get this. You mentioned a similar sentiment about the documentation. What is so bad in your assessment about having two

Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Björnke von Gierke wrote: I guess we should have coordinated this better, but Richard only asked me yesterday. :( Maybe you and he can sort it out, and if you want, I'm happy to step down. I don't get this. You mentioned a similar sentiment about the documentation. What is so bad in your

Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Rereading my post it was unnecessary edgy on the tone. I understand now that you only wanted to make sure i don't feel stepped on the tie (german saying). Meanwhile, I do think that looking out not to harm other people feelings too much can be as damaging as caring for them too little. In my

Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-10 Thread Brian Yennie
There is one slightly unconventional option for hosting which we could consider for things Rev-related: Amazon's S3 service. There is no contract, and the cost is $0.15/month per GB storage and $0.18/GB download. I believe upload is $0.10 / GB. You can add a CNAME DNS record to any

Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Brenstein wrote: Related to that: Would it be possible to mirror the IDE stack files somewhere, where a program can download them (maybe ask runrev for a bit of space on their server?)? Additionally, is it possible not to use zip files (because that needs the zip.dll)? I recommend plain

Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Björnke von Gierke wrote: Rereading my post it was unnecessary edgy on the tone. I understand now that you only wanted to make sure i don't feel stepped on the tie (german saying). Meanwhile, I do think that looking out not to harm other people feelings too much can be as damaging as caring

[ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
i wanted to write a tutorial for people to follow, when they do not have any metacard installed yet, but want to check it out. In my opinion, the process would be too complex to follow, and no one is gonna read a tutorial anyway. Therefore I made a stack that does it mostly automatic:

Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
Björnke von Gierke wrote: i wanted to write a tutorial for people to follow, when they do not have any metacard installed yet, but want to check it out. In my opinion, the process would be too complex to follow, and no one is gonna read a tutorial anyway. Therefore I made a stack that does it

Re: [ANN] automatic metacard IDE creation tool

2007-06-09 Thread Ken Ray
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:17:45 +0200, Björnke von Gierke wrote: i wanted to write a tutorial for people to follow, when they do not have any metacard installed yet, but want to check it out. In my opinion, the process would be too complex to follow, and no one is gonna read a tutorial