I would think we should concentrate on the next release for two reasons - 1) the current release is ancient and 2) that will mean more features to run on slingshot.
On 5/1/07, Luke Melia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Far out!!! This is very cool. How do we decide how much time to spend on this versus the next release? Luke BSAG wrote: > Tracksters, > > This is huge. This is bigger than the biggest thing you can think of. > > Slingshot: > <http://joyeur.com/2007/03/22/joyent-slingshot> > > It was announced a month or more ago, and I thought at the time that > it looked very cool. When they announced that Open Source apps would > be able to use Slingshot free of charge, I got even more interested, > but I didn't want to say anything about it here until I'd tried it - > no need to get everyone excited for no reason. > > You can read the page linked above for more details, but basically, > Slingshot is a framework to allow you to run Rails applications as if > they were native applications. You can run them seamlessly offline, > then sync data to a server when online. You can drag and drop stuff, > just like a native application, and (almost best of all, as far as > I'm concerned), you can distribute applications for Mac and Windows > with everything included: just one application package that you drag > to /Applications, double click to run and go. > > Pretty smooth, no? > > They released it today, and after only about five minutes of messing > about, I produced this: > > <http://www.rousette.org.uk/projects/images/uploads/movies/ > TracksonSlingshot.mov> > > I haven't tried syncing or online/offline mode, or drag and drop, but > it works, it's snappy, and it was dead easy. > > Yum. I think we're going to have some fun with this. > > cheers, > > bsag > _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
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