Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
In another thread the topic came up about moving our open source process forward with the IDE. Let me describe some of the current options already on the table, and invite your suggestions for others: There are challenges with any open source project, and with LiveCode they're made even

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 09/06/2014 00:31, Richard Gaskin wrote: In broad terms: - Forums as a central working group resource we can use to explore ideas, assemble teams, and manage projects Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the forums mirrored (or gatewayed, or whatever the right term is) into e-mail ? I find

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
I would much rather have new email lists than forums. Yes, some folks are forums people. I am not. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: On 09/06/2014 00:31, Richard Gaskin wrote: In broad terms: - Forums as a central working group resource we can use to

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
also, what's the difference between this forum and the Extending group? On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: I would much rather have new email lists than forums. Yes, some folks are forums people. I am not. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Alex

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
I would also like to have a class on hacking the IDE, so when we are breaking things to look cool, we aren't doing something that will make our work harder to accept. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: In another thread the topic came up about

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the forums mirrored (or gatewayed, or whatever the right term is) into e-mail ? I find the forums impossibly slow and tedious to check, search and read. Maybe I need to do it every day, maybe I need to use some option, or some external tool,

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: what's the difference between this forum and the Extending group? The description for Extending LiveCode reads: Are you developing tools to extend the LiveCode environment? This is the place to talk about the nuts and bolts of extending our nuts and bolts. If

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread As_Simon
Two things Richard left out: You must be logged in to the forum to view the New Posts and there is also an Unread Posts (by you) link. Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Open-Source-IDE-and-You-tp4680349p4680359.html Sent from the Revolution

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
I've been hacking the IDE for my own purposes for years, but I just posted my first FIX a week or two ago, since our effort is now hopefully going to be more helpful. I also asked to get some more detail on INTERNAL, because I have now bounced into it several times. The problem with setting

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
Also, the emails you get when you email subscribe to the forums don't tell you anything except that there's been a message. The content is not included. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: I've been hacking the IDE for my own purposes for years, but I

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/8/2014, 7:03 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the forums mirrored (or gatewayed, or whatever the right term is) into e-mail ? You can! I hate the forum structure too and I just don't have the patience to navigate to every topic daily. But if you go to your user

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: Also, the emails you get when you email subscribe to the forums don't tell you anything except that there's been a message. The content is not included. Good catch - thanks. Ignore my instructions, and follow Jacque's instead: